#havenco

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Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation

HavenCo's failure—and make no mistake about it, HavenCo did fail—shows how hard it is to get out from under government's thumb. HavenCo built it, but no one came. For a host of reasons, ranging from its physical vulnerability to the fact that The Man doesn't care where you store your data if he can get his hands on you, Sealand was never able to offer the kind of immunity from law that digital rebels sought. And, paradoxically, by seeking to avoid government, HavenCo made itself exquisitely vulnerable to one government in particular: Sealand's. It found that out the hard way in 2003 when Sealand "nationalized" the company.

For the last two years, I've researched the history of Sealand and HavenCo. I used the Wayback Machine to reconstruct long-since-vanished webpages. I dug through microfilm of newspapers back to the 1960s. I pored over thousands of pages of documents, only recently unsealed, from the United Kingdom's National Archives.

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[ladonnapietra]

One other weird reminiscence re: Havenco: I went to one of Neal Stephenson's book signings for Cryptonomicon at Cody's Books in Berkeley circa 1999.  (Because the Internet knows all, I can confirm that it was Thursday, May 13, 1999 from 7:30-9 p.m.)  While I was there, I ran into a couple of friends of friends who hadn't been around Berkeley all that much recently.  I asked them what they'd been up to and they changed the subject.  That particular group of friends was prone to doing that sort of thing, so I didn't press the issue.  I figured out much later on that they were in the process of setting up Havenco.  Ironically, Cryptonomicon features a data haven very similar to Havenco (though rather idealized). I'm pretty sure that's why they were there. 

Mr. Pietra was also in the audience, though I didn't know him at the time. 

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Things I recall my libertarian island-dwelling friend complaining about not having on Sealand:

Sushi

Sex

Someone to talk to in person who he wasn't already sick of talking to

Gun stores

A cat

Clean underwear

Laundry facilities of any kind

Freshwater showers

Clothes shopping opportunities

Reliable mail delivery

Climate control

Relief from corrosion of anything and everything metallic

Access to cultural events (specifically, book signings)

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On libertarian islands.

Oddly enough, I know a few people who tried to make one work about a decade ago.  This one, specifically: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.07/haven.html

It was not a raging success.  However, the complications involved in running a data center completely divorced from any country's laws at precisely the time that most of the world's superpowers got deeply interested in terrorist funding mechanisms may have been a factor.  The personalities of the people involved also had a weensy bit to do with the end result.