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Crypto utopia Sealand ravaged by fire by Andrew Orlowski
Andrew over at The Register writes about a fire that broke out on Sea Land wrecking the generator room. For those not familiar, there was a talk by Ryan Lacky of HavenCo, a company set up on Sea Land to provide privacy services. I believe it inspired some of the characters in Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon book (Go read it.. very good)
I've wondered what happened since the business imploded in 2003, but from the article it seems not much.
Fire has damaged a World War II gun emplacement seven miles off the English coast. Better known as "Sealand", the fort was acquired in the 1960s by Roy Bates, who declared it an independent principality."
"In a presentation to the 2003 DefCon convention, a former employee described how internal politics and a lack of investment backing had thwarted the experiment. Contracts were broken, the bandwidth never materialised, and the location was vulnerable to DOS attacks. At the time [6] of his 2003 presentation, HavenCo had no new customers, and had seen several of its existing customers leave."
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