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A massive floating data-centre out in international waters would be a pretty powerful protection against governmental interference in your business. Well, except for the military kind.


It's been tried: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/sealand-and-haven...


Not really.

It's a similar idea but comparing Google putting it's resources behind a similar idea to something like Sealand is not really a fair comparison.

The outcome could be vastly different.


Yeah that last part of your thought is the only important one. Nobody, _nobody_ has better undersea cabling tapping abilities than the NSA.


Ahem, (Unfortunately as a Brit) I think Tempora/GCHQ might be up there with the NSA.




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