Ask Havenco's CTO Anything You'd Like 226
A few days ago you read here on Slashdot about the datahaven called Havenco poised to open six miles off the English coast, in the semi-recognized, undeniably eccentric principality of Sealand.
Havenco CTO Ryan Lackey has graciously agreed to answer
questions from Slashdot, and to involve others on the Havenco team in answering questions he can't. C'mon -- how can you not be curious about an off-shore datahaven in an anti-aircraft bunker? Ask questions in the space below, and we'll forward 10-15 of the highest moderated ones on to Ryan. [Updated 15:40GMT by timothy:] Remember, many of the obvious questions are answered on the Web sites above or in the comments of the first story. Fire away with meaty technical questions -- they're up for it!
Ownership of Sealand (Score:1)
As far as I understand the law, if a vessel is abandoned in international waters then anyone can claim salvage rights.
Network Protection (Score:1)
A Different, but Real, Terrorist Threat (Score:1)
In this case, of course authoritarian ISPs (Singnet, China Telecom, AOL) would block the IPs
I would suspect that the Taliban, Hezbollah, Focus on the Family, or other fundamentalist types would be able to come up with a guy with a motorboat and some Semtex. Will the Royal Navy come out to save the former outpost? Survey says no. And I don't see Havenco suddenly developing a global intelligence service and high-powered navy to keep the NON-cyber terrorists away.
It brings new meaning to the term "denial of service." And "single point of failure."
Andrew
Reputability? (Score:1)
I'll keep it short and sweet - if this is legit, where did you get the money, what are your approximate costs, and how many customers do you have presently? In addition, most customers utilizing a service such as the one you provide have serious concerns about physical integrity of their server: a physical compromise of the system can rarely be detected remotely. What are your plans for ensuring mutual tamper-proof systems (ie, you cannot tamper with them without your customer knowing and vice versa)?
Re:You seem to be missing the point. (Score:1)
Another post [slashdot.org] makes that clearer, though.
And, according to another post [slashdot.org], HavenCo will be taking control of the island, which means they can define legal/illegal (maybe, I dunno the exact terms). It's still a sticky issue.
Re:Do you need any help? (Score:1)
Re:Connectivity (Score:4)
Personnel Security (Score:1)
I've looked at your website and see that you have a management team in place, but I'm wondering about your staffing set-up. Answers to any or all of the questions below would be appreciated.
Will your employees (especially technical staff) be bonded? If so, how?
Will staff all be located locally on the island?
Are you outsourcing any activities, such as intrusion detection or any network monitoring?
What is the caliber of your technical staff? What kind of skills are you recruiting for? [And, are you hiring?
Are you taking any special measures to protect your staff (from physical, legal, or other factors)?
Very interested,
- sk
Com lines and PR (Score:1)
and finally a small PR suggestion. Since this service is going to mostlly excite geeks, how about tossing a bone our way. Say a public PGP key server at havenco or something of that sort?
Uses and Abuses (Score:1)
The question I would have, far more important than having your lines severed, is what if your IP(s) wind up on every single national filter across the globe? Where will that leave companies which are being hosted by you? China will almost certainly block access to your IP(s). What happens when the US government blocks access to your IP range bassed on a request from Metallica? (Pun intended.) Where does that leave your clients?
Also, how much of a data center can that fortress hold? Many data centers are massive, (Mine is relatively small, but still takes up a super-market sized building.
Last but not least, how do you intend to get the hardware? Some of the hardware I am ording falls under US export regulations. Surely those regulations would be extended to include the Principality of Sealand, especially since it is not subject to any agreements made by the EU to prevent high-powered computing from falling into terrorist hands.
operations of a sovereign country (Score:1)
How do you plan on running typical matters of government? (such as taxes, citizens, tariffs, a judicial system, criminals, the death penalty, treason, etc.) Many people are frustrated with the beuarocracy and injustice of the governments in their own countries. Since you have the opportunity of building your own from scratch, what are your plans?
Future Data Havens? (Score:1)
Re:Cryptonomicon? (Score:2)
Now if you'll pardon me, my Ensure's gettin warm and my oatmeal's gettin cold. mumble, mumble...Cryptonomicon..mumble, mumble data haven. Feh! ;-)
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY? (Score:1)
I'd like to be an Ammbassador at Large
[for which I understand spelling isn't
required]to Estonia.
Even a minor post such as cook in
the Sealand mission to the UN could
get me out of a whole mess of parking tickets &
one of them 'red white& blue' license plates.
Looking around I don't seem to find much
worthy to save but I hope you can keep those
amusing naked ladies showing up in my Email.
They make more sense than Windows or
Neural path technology.
I wish you well in your
'Third Foundation'
Now if only you could do something
about the Free Masons who are causing these
censorship problems in
the first place [I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE]
watch out for those MIXCROWAVE LASERS.
This is not a question. (Score:1)
This is not, in my opinion, a favorable situation. The world needs less centralization of power. This is an opportunity for more. And from the ``holes'' in the story, many exposed by questions in this discussion, all make it seem very likely that HavenCo will be controlled by, as I'll put it, a group unsincere to the cause.
--Drew Vogel
Re:Security (Score:1)
"Leave the gun, take the canoli."
Question : Jobs (Score:1)
Re:Sealand Zippo lighters? WRONG SEALAND :) (Score:1)
Sealand is also the name of a well-known shipping company. When I mentioned the Sealand datahaven to my brother (who kindly introduced me to Neal Stephenson's books a few years ago and himself works on ships part of each year), he wrinkled his brow and said "Sealand? You mean the shippers?"
timothy
Technical employees (Score:1)
DoS (Score:5)
Sealand will inevitably have thin comms links and so will be more exposed than most to a DoS attack. Recent cases have involved ISPs pulling user sites simply for being attacked in this way - they accept the target site is blameless, but pulled it "for the good of the majority of users" and the restoration of their own comms.
How would Havenco respond to such an attack ? Taking the moral highground, or the pragmatic approach of letting individual users be picked off ?
Applications (Score:1)
Will you shelter Anonymous Cowards? (Score:2)
We ACs lead a life of misery, frequently banding together and posting numerous articles together in our revolutionary movement for greater recognition. Unfortunately, factions form and it is common to see ACs fighting ACs, forgetting their cause.
Will you shelter us? We don't have much money, but our wisdom shines from continent to continent. We are probably the most persecuted group on the internet, and need all the recognition and help we can get.
on behalf of,
Supreme United League of Anonymous Cowards (SULAC).
Any plans on expanding your island? (Score:3)
Are you going to sink more barges/piles to expand your area?
George
Bank? (Score:1)
Royal Navy abandoned the site (Score:1)
My point here is that the Royal Navy cannot really come in fifty years later and reclaim something that they built and abandoned out in international waters, especially if people have been living on it continuously. Of course, that says nothing about the status of the structure as a "real country" entitled to issue passports, etc. It just says that the structure really does belong to those who claim it. At least in the eyes of British law (though I'm obviously no expert) which is mostly what applies here.
Why and what? (Score:5)
Will you allow data that does any of the following:
- evades taxes or excise?
- breaks local morality and legislated morality (including where oppressive eg: Iran)?
- belongs to political dissidents?
- belongs to terrorists, organised-crime, etc?
- is uploaded and maintained completely anonymously?
- is maintained with absolutely no access granted to anyone trying to prosecute on grounds of its content?
Do you percieve what you're doing as moral? If so why?
Secure communication? (Score:1)
(1) How connectied is Sealand to the rest of the world. What if other nations decided to try to cut Sealand off from international communications--would that be feasible given the number of data lines coming out of the country?
(2) The data seems safe so long as it is sitting in your data haven, and, obviously, the security of the data is in your clients' hands once they've retrieved data from the haven, but what about in between the two. How do you propose to keep the data secure during transmission (i.e. uploading and downloading)?
Re:Connectivity (Score:1)
Sealand is a mini oil rig ... (Score:1)
Re:3 questions (Score:1)
is Sealand the Duchy of Grand Fenwick? (Score:1)
Islands in the Net (Score:1)
structural and geological survey results, please. (Score:1)
We want to know how stable your chosen platform is!
OK. So "Sealand" is the former Roughs Tower naval fort off the Essex coast. This structure was erected in 1942 (and hey, let's slashdot someone: picture of this at http://freespace.virgin .net/line.design/forts/sea_forts.htm [virgin.net]) and was not intended to be permanent. Tongue Sands Tower, a similar structure recently broke up and partially sank.
I'll huff and I'll puff... (Score:1)
I'd suggest buying a surplus russian nuke and putting it on a dead-man switch. And even that might not do it.
Any defense plans at all?...
Is it really a country? (Score:1)
3 questions (Score:4)
Redundancy (Score:1)
Re:Physical assault & freenet (Score:3)
justification (Score:3)
My question (Score:2)
Re:3 questions (Score:4)
{Conroy and Turner approach a seemingly abandoned oil platform by helicopter: the helipad is marked by a large biohazard symbol...}
Conroy: Somebody tried to set it up once as a data haven, back before the war.
...
Turner: There a biohazard down there?
Conroy: Not anything you're not used to.
from Count Zero, by William Gibson, 1986!
Not to say that Stephenson's a Johnny-Mnemonic-Come-Lately, but hey, let's get the attributions correct ;)
Connectivity (Score:5)
Real sovereignty? (Score:5)
Given this, and the fact that from what I've read, Havenco only has one connection to the outside world running directly to the UK, whereas a really useful data haven would, to my mind, need several connections to several different countries to be really viable or immune from legislative interference -- is this really intended to be a viable idea, or just a publicity stunt?
Do you have a white long haired cat? (Score:4)
Are you going to have Jill St. John stop by for a photo op? Or maybe Plenty O'Toole?
The obvious question... (Score:2)
Re:platforms and access (Score:4)
Read The Website before asking questions. (Score:3)
Hardware - VA Linux Boxes.
OS - Debian, RedHat, OpenBSD, or FreeBSD 4.0
Access - Doesn't say, but I am assuming ssh, ssl, etc, since it says open secure protocols.
Why don't people read the available info, before wasting questions asking stuff that is easy to find out, and doesn't require their CTO?
Oh well people are just lazy I guess.
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Cryptonomicon? (Score:4)
Other sites? Redundency? (Score:2)
So how do you plan on making sure that content going into your datahaven is from valid sources, and then do you expect to do a review of all data and THEN send it to an appropriate site? Or are users responsible for knowing the laws of the country where the data is to be sent to? Similarly, are users restricted to one site, or can they request multiple HavenCo locations?
Would you like to comment on this? (Score:2)
First, Read this:
http://www.smh.com.au/ne ws/0004/03/features/features2.html [smh.com.au]
So, who are you? What is your background?
Who lives on the island?
Why would I host on a man-made island I could crash a plane into?
-Davidu
Do you need any help? (Score:5)
Is HavenCo in Sealand just a demo? (Score:3)
My question: is HavenCo in Sealand simply a flashy demo for a planned 'public beta' somewhere in Asia or the Carribean later on?
Thank you.
Chris Worth [chrisworth.com]
user-side threats (Score:5)
If so, may we have more details on how?
If not, do you think that certain governments will make it a crime to simply do business with Sealand? I understand your explanation [havenco.com] that you're not undermining the authority of other governments -- but you are undermining their power to legislate away certain activities to which they object, and I imagine they won't like that. In a world which places little value on a citizen's soveriegnty against hir government, there would be few reprucussions to (say) the U.S. making it illegal to purchase your services, but it would put a big dent in your ability to do business.
- Michael Cohn
How can you avoid ISPs Terms and Conditions (Score:3)
Most terms and conditions for ISPs restrict you from undertaking illegal activities and are recognised as being legal in the country that service is obtained from. If you HavenCo host something that is disallowed in the Terms and Conditions you agreed to then claiming International independance is not an option.
About the only way I can see of getting round this is to take bandwidth from a much more liberal country who are more likely to accept the money without questions.
possible questions for HavenCo (Score:5)
Sealand sign the Berne Convention, and thus does
it respect copyright?
2...Explain who is the real owner, because outsiders are confused with havenco, principality-sealand.net and sealandgov.com
3...Will I be allowed to store encrypted files there that HavenCo can't possible read, condone nor condemn?
4...Why does Havenco insist on policies that allow them to remove content based on their disgretion? How many judges does Sealand have to deal with this, or will Joe random Sysadmin play judge?
5...How will havenco prevent their backbone ISP or that ISP's country from interfering with Sealand/Havenco?
Re:Royal Navy abandoned the site (Score:2)
This article [luf.org] and article 60 of this one [greenpeace.org] (from a vague web search) look interesting.
Ethics. (Score:2)
A holding company in the US could allow a German company to store, serve and update Nazi material (which is illegal in Germany). Similar situations could allow for storage of child pornography or copyrighted material. How do your rules deal with this?
Re:Physical Security (Score:2)
HavenCo's justification (Score:5)
Child Pornography (Score:2)
What about Terrorist Threat? (Score:4)
But what about terrorists? What if some terrorist organization sees Sealand as a get rich quick scheme, and wants to capture and hold hostage the sensitive data of some of the worlds largest companies? Threats to divulge internal secrets, data loss, exposure of personal information of clients and accounting records have all got to sound like a good opportunity to someone out there.
Surely, government militaries cannot be expected to defend what is clearly a corporate undertaking (though I suspect some governments would think it was their job), so what kind of defense is Sealand, or HavenCo in particular going to have in place if any?
-Tommy
Robust connectivity? (Score:2)
Assuming you start with a single microwave connection to the coast, it makes routing easy, but leaves you open to any number of problems others have already addressed.
Later you may have some expensive backup satellite connections and you might lay down an undersea fibre link to both the british and continental coasts (you could resell the excess bandwidth with no problem, could be nicely profitable).
Do you envisage pushing the technological envelope to keep your connectivity going when you have multiple connections? Some tricks along the lines of asymetric routing tables, discontiguous EBGP AS path switching, or encrypted vpn tunnels to sympathetic ISPs in a shell game of anonymizing hops like zero knowledge? How closely are you working with your upstream providers to head off problems?
Would you consider reselling vpn endpoints so people could tunnel traffic out of oppressive countries without the local authorities sniffing the traffic for content?
the AC
[who should lose karma for excessive use of buzzwords]
Government of Sealand (Score:2)
I noticed on the Sealand website references to Prince Roy's ill health. With Michael of Sealand on your board of directors, how will the political and business arrangements be handled? In other words, what is the relationship between the Government of Sealand and Havenco? And what will that relationship be should Michael of Sealand ascend to the Throne.
What will you do WHEN you get shut down? (Score:5)
I've read that you have plans for other locations, but the information was very vague (as is this question
I love the idea, but this is just ridiculous. Unless you've got unlimited capital coming out of your ears, this is not going to happen. Even if the governments leave the physical location alone, they are bound to shut off your land lines. Satellite bandwidth is beyond prohibitively expensive right now and will remain so for many years. Do you plan to launch your own satellite and man your own ground station in some secret location in order to maintain connenctivity? Even that wouldn't be enough. Governments would find that and shut it down too...
you answered your own question (Score:2)
(emphasis mine)
Obviously not. If they were, they wouldn't have to pose as officials. They most likely bought false papers from the German businessman who once invaded sealand and kidnapped the Prince's son. (he, the businessman, is still selling false Sealand documents, including passports)
They aren't.
I really don't know. The HavenCo people are pretty well-respected in their fields, though. I'd hope not.
Re:Questions for Havenco (Score:2)
What about Scientology? (Score:2)
Which brings me to my question: Do you have any plans on implementing true physical countermeasures, such as phased-array radar, anti-aircraft weaponry, and hardened gun emplacements?
Re:Physical assault & freenet (Score:2)
- I noted in the Sealand website:
- Will H/S seek to enter NATO?
- I'm assuming that H/S's physical security threat model includes small merc forces (everyone always trains for the last war). Placing that at one extreme and, say, a cruise missile strike from your favorite Western power at the other extreme, about where (in rough terms) are you planning?
- Sealand seems to have an antagonistic history with the world, as when, in 1990, a ship was fired upon by Sealand (I'll assume there is more history than listed on the website). Given the lack of recognition Sealand already has (a ruling by an internal state court of the United Kingdom does not, in law, have any binding upon the international community), how is H/S planning on fighting the image of H/S as a pirate's den, hosting illegal services in a cutthroat backwater?
- On the Rules of Use, I noticed this worrisome line:
Good luck,HavenCo will now take over operations of the government of Sealand and operate the first datacenter for its secure colocation services from the Sealand sovereign fortress.
First, congratulations! I suppose this would make you Minister of Technology or somesuch. However, given the dim view that many countries will take of this merger, do you anticipate this will place on roadblock on diplomatic efforts by HavenCo/Sealand (H/S)?
This document may change from time to time. Changes go into effect and are applied to all customers from the time that they are posted to the above URL.
While this is a fine statement of principle, given the lack of recourse a business will have (after all, Havenco is the government), what effect do you anticipate this will have on your marketing staff?
cordelia
Information wants to be free
Re:what does it offer? (Score:2)
I think their service is an Internet analog to the many services that provide ways of handling contraband goods.
For instance, let us say you live in a restrictive country, "A," but you are currently visiting country, "B." You find something you would like to buy country B, but cannot legally own it when you are in country A: but you can ship it to a service in country "C!"
Datahaven may be like country C in that you can store your contraband there and access it through someplace in country B without breaking any laws in country A.
But of course, this is all speculation!
-AP
Re:justification (Score:2)
Now weary traveller, rest your head. For just like me, you're utterly dead.
Physical Security (Score:4)
Physical assault & freenet (Score:4)
1) There is a not-all-that-slim chance that if activities began to occur on your data haven that the Western powers disagreed with, they would find a way to excuse an invasion and confiscate your equipment. The obvious wrong answer to this would be to build your own defense. Is such an invasion even a conern for you? Have you given any thought to signing treaties or other such matters of statecraft, or do you think the international community doesn't take you seriously enough to consider such offers?
2) Second, with the coming of sites such as Freenet, do you feel that a data haven such as you have envisioned is still necessary?
- Rev.platforms and access (Score:4)
Also how will clients access their files and how will those files be stored? Will you be using existing technology now like ssh/https type for the transfer or will you be writing a secure client?
Thanks.
RIP to RIP? (Score:2)
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Protecting Customers (Score:2)
Also, what are you doing to protect customers? Do you see your data haven as becoming the "Swiss Bank" equivalent for data?
And finally, what kind of hardware/software do you guys have supporting your operation?
Data Security (Score:2)
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Single Point of Failure? (Score:3)
I was wondering if you have multiple internet backbone connections. I read something about a microwave link to the mainland, but no details.
Do you have multiple microwave links?
Do you have connections to multiple countries, so the UK can't just shut down your connection?
What is your primary source of electrical power, and how long can you operate with backup power when that fails?
Best Regards,
Local Loop
Re:justification (Score:4)
Now weary traveller, rest your head. For just like me, you're utterly dead.
Re:3 questions (Score:2)
~luge
P.S. HavenCo isn't anything compared to what Fidel Castro could in CUBAdo if he wanted to. Think about it- a country with pretty normal trade relations with 95% of the world that hates the US and would love nothing more than to host DeCSS and the like and flick us yet another finger. And his successors (no matter what happens, democracy or otherwise) are pretty guaranteed to hate the US and have good fiber to, say, Mexico, no matter what.
Re:My question (Score:2)
concept], I suspect that a multitude of global organizations will attempt to "muscle in" on your market. How will you compete with, for instance, IBM or GEISCO, which can not only buy much larger islands, but can afford multiple backup locations as well?
Why do you need physical security at all? (Score:5)
Lots of people are asking questions about physical security, and how you're going to repel missiles and commandos, but I've got the opposite question: why do you need physical security and a physical location at all? Would not the best way to protect your customers' data be to wrap it in hard crypto and distribute it far and wide across the whole of the net, ensuring that there is not a single point of failure or a single physical installation that can be isolated?
As we've seen again and again recently, the best protection against censorship and other legal attacks is massive redundancy and decentralization.
International Affairs (Score:5)
According to the Sealand Government web site [sealandgov.com], Havenco "will now take over operations of the government of Sealand." As I understand the other text on the same page, it is generally believed that the government of the UK would not interfere in any acts of piracy, terrorism, or assault on your "territory." Since you are now within the limits of the territorial waters claimed by the UK, you probably won't have to worry about a full-out assault from a sovereign nation, but another attack like that of 1978 could happen again. Of course, there is nothing but a few court rulings to protect you from Her Majesty's Armed Forces.
Given the precarious nature of the "sovereignty" of Sealand, will you be seeking international recognition and treaties to guarantee your physical security from such attacks? Will you be joining any of the international protocols for cooperation in law enforcement or other areas? I would think that joining these would go a long way to cementing your viability.
Is this site permitted? (Score:5)
After reading your TOS [havenco.com] I have become rather curious in regards to the following cluase:
Unacceptable publications include, but are not limited to:
In the case of the Sealand datacenter, what are some of the limitations?
Please note that in the following examples I am not equating one example with any other or implying that any of the following should be censored; rather they are examples of what I would consider sticky wickets when running a "data haven" and wonder how such things will be handled.
Imagine the following:
I am a rabid anti-choice activist in the United States. I wish to post a site with a hit list of doctors [about.com] performing abortions in the United States. After each "accident" I wish to mark them with a big red X. I publish detailed information on how to find each of these doctors.
Is this site permitted?
I am a hacker who wants to play DVDs [helo.org] on my Linux box and I want to use free software. I want to place source code [metastudios.com] on my website. The United States says this violates some stupid law [gpo.gov] and some annoying people object [slashdot.org].
Is this site permitted?
I am a devote Iron Chef fan and Fuji TV [fujitv.co.jp] has just sent me a cease and desist order [io.com]. I wish to move my materials to Sealand.
Is this site permitted?
I am a regular guy in the UK creating a website about my daily life. Some people don't like the way I talk about them and my site is pulled [bbc.co.uk].
Is this site permitted?
Will you allow sites advocating the overthrow of rival goverments, challenged uses of intellectual property, bomb making instructions, and other information that will get other nation-states panties in a twist?
Re:Real sovereignty? (Score:2)
"They are hoping that the installation, connected to the Internet by high-speed microwave and satellite links, will become a refuge from governments increasingly trying to tame and regulate the Internet."
They have other links to the internet that are even safer from legislative blocking.
My question is, how are you raising capital for such a "different" idea.
Questions for Havenco (Score:2)
2. Who guarantees your physical security. For example, if you host data considered by some government to be a threat to them, who will defend you against commando raids, air strikes, and the like?
Points of Contact to the Internet (Score:5)
Don't say it can't/won't happen. Unfortunately, it can and probably will.
Security (Score:4)
I mean, Sealand's already been taken by military force once, and back then it didn't even have anything more interesting on it than a self-proclaimed prince, his wife, and their heir apparent.
Now, you've got some very very valuable data to protect, and while the equipment may theoretically be tamper-proofed, I would hope that that is not your _only_ assurance of security.
I'm not talking about full-blown military incursions, either
Liability of your service provider (Score:3)
What company is providing *you* with networking on Sealand? Is it possible that they could be liable under the laws in their own country for traffic coming out of Sealand? It's possible that this could negate any benefit to setting up a Sealand server.
Re:Why and what? (Score:2)
I'm not saying that gambling and money-laundering are immoral, but they aren't on the pure altruistic level of free speech, either. Then again, Havenco makes no bones about being a for-profit company... look at those rates [havenco.com]!
Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Questions (Score:3)
You seem to be missing the point. (Score:2)
The question doesn't make sense. Free speech is free speech. Illegal speech is not free speech. For supporters of free speech, there is no such thing as "illegal data".
Having said that, the other posters here are correct... HavenCo isn't taking such a bold stance. They won't allow "illegal data." Read the FAQ... er, actually, the Acceptable Use Policy [havenco.com].
All is fine, until... (Score:2)
Then, buoyed by the apparent immunity, somebody else will do it. Then another bloke will do the same.
This will go on until her majesty's government is sufficiently annoyed and the Royal Navy is dispatched to forcibly reclaim british sovereignty over your bunker.
What will you do?
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Here's my mirror [respublica.fr]
Web Email (was: Re:Disconnected Living) (Score:5)
Can I get (either for free, or since this is a business, for pay) an email address at havenco.com, or some other domain hosted at Sealand?
In reality, the most important data any person or organization has is their email! It can be read, spied on, subpoenaed, etc. I'd pay MONEY for this service.
Will Sealand be getting a top-level country code? If so, you could also sell domains, but let me say that I think the hottest idea is selling web-based email accounts.
Dibs on "billg@havenco.com"
Connectivity (Score:2)
If your link to London falls, can you still give good connectivity (latency and bandwidth)?
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Re:Real sovereignty? (Score:2)
-russ
p.s. or did you think I was serious?
Re:Royal Navy abandoned the site (Score:2)
-russ
How far will you go? (Score:3)
I'm sure you know the extent of what you're getting into. This data haven represents an international "threat" to security/intelligence, a threat that sooner or later I expect a country's intelligence agency will choose to deal with.
My question is: how far are you willing to go with this data haven? It seems to mean much more to you than just a cool networking phenomenon; are you willing to fight and even die for these ideals?
-peeto
RIP (Score:2)
If you are requested to disclose the contents of a server under RIP, will you claim to be in the UK, or outside it ? How strongly will you assert this ?
what does it offer? (Score:4)
Disconnected Living in a Connected Business (Score:5)
What were the major challenges of setting up on the island? How many people, and what sort of equipment did it take? Is there more left to do?
What are some of your day-to-day facilities like (food, shelter, perhaps even recreation)?
What is your daily cash burn rate? Are there ways to cut it?
Are you making a profit now? If not, when do you plan to be able to?
Do you have a plan in case of a hostile take-over?
Where can I send my resume?
Interesting concept...I wish you luck!
-AP