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Re: Roy Bates, "Prince Roy" of Sealand, dies at 90.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (telmnstr@757.org)
Thu Oct 11 15:59:26 2012
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:59:08 -0400 (EDT)
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> 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
