DataHaven

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A DataHaven is secure freeport for information. The idea is that in the future, as governments attempt to exert extreme control over information (such as passing laws like the DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct?), it will become necessary to move information to legal safe havens. This typically means to microstates--tiny sovereign nations, usually with monarchies of some sort (dictators will do).

These small countries are outside the jurisdiction of larger powers' legal frameworks and are also quite happy to lack any laws governing content.

So, the DataHaven itself is a well-defended (lots of guns), high-bandwidth, crypographically-secure server room where foreign interests can store their information without worrying (too much) about being snooped on or subpoenaed or having it stolen.

Of course, you have to trust the small country not to change its laws when convenient for them, and the haven itself to not snoop on you. Since havens are shady enterprises themselves, this is dicey.

Havens also suffer from SinglePointOfFailure? problems: one good missile will destroy your data; and from dependence on mainstream connection points: just sever their internet connections in friendly nations; and of course on the BenevolentDictator being honest. Kind of against the whole Internet philosophy of "redundant, distributed and deeply connected."

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