On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, David Honig wrote:
> Not having the King in control of the
> island is good, as Baptista says, because law changes every time a judge
> (or king) farts.
Exactly. I'm watching the Sealand thing very closely. I have a personal
vested interest in it's success - called freedom of information.
> Maybe the single-point-of-failure can be addressed by getting other
> Sovereigns to set up
> data havens. A distributed island data network. Tonga has more than a
> cute TLD: it has
> its sovereignty. Similarly Anguilla. That's a lot of islands to nuke. HM
> Roy might
> show others how to live independently.
Exactly - for the last two years I've discussed the concept of datahaven
with Richard Sexton. It requires a certain legislative framework - i.e. a
computer systems - it's associated networks etc. etc. are imune and
protected from tampering and interference by the state. That's the first
key - a law to keep the governing authority from violating data integrety
in any way. The usual laws to keep others from tampering with data
integrety - etc. etc. It would be a practical twist for the governing
authority to declare cyberspace an independent territory - but that's
another argument.
I don't know how sucessfull sealand is going to be. But it will serve the
purpose of showing existing government authorities who maintain bank
secrecy laws another means of making revenue. And you can make more
revenue in data then you can financially.
I say - three cheers for sealand and the concept - hip hip hurray.
regards
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