Say a public PGP key server at havenco or something of that sort? Since this service is going to mostlly excite geeks, how about tossing a bone our way. While the data on your servers is encrypted, do you leave it up to your clients to encrypt the traffic going back and forth from havenco, or do you require something like browser encryption or ssh?Īnd finally a small PR suggestion. If your lines hub out to an MCI presence in say england (pardon, Im not totally up on havenco's exact physical location.) what would happen if MCI takes some heat and is forced to drop your service? any backup plans? 3) Protecting the traffic on those lines. How do you plan on 1) protecting those lines, be it physical or sat link from attackers. The only potential weak point that I have seen is your lines to the outside world. It sounds like you have made the physical site as secure as possible, short of dropping mines on the beach and putting rangers in gun towers. It brings new meaning to the term "denial of service." And "single point of failure." And I don't see Havenco suddenly developing a global intelligence service and high-powered navy to keep the NON-cyber terrorists away.
Will the Royal Navy come out to save the former outpost? Survey says no. 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. but couldn't a fatwa-equipped terrorist show up with a bunch of plastique and simply suicide-bomb it away? In this case, of course authoritarian ISPs (Singnet, China Telecom, AOL) would block the IPs.
Or suppose that opposition parties in less than friendly nations (Yugoslavia, China, Zimbabwe) began to post their websites there, beyond the range of local authorities, like B92 does with. What about the obvious terrorist threat - to Sealand itself? Suppose Havenco begins to make a lot of money in gambling and porn (a likely possibility given the questionable legal status of both in various jurisdictions).