James Grimmelmann's recent write up is worth reading http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=james_grimmelmann j

Octal gave a talk at Defcon or HOPE a few years in a row about Sealand. The last one he spilled the beans on how bad Sealand did. Managerial and customer base wise. IIRC for months the entire internet connection was done over a cell phone at 9600bps or some such. He went into some details about difficulties of the idea (banks won't accept you.) One of the most memorable talks I've seen. - Ethan O'Toole ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE