Friday, October 5, 2007

Anonymous Network Casestudy 3 | Havenco.


Havenco is both physically and virtually off shore network. By locating its server in the Sealand, the self claimed sovereign state, the service can officially avoid physical adversary attack to the server, because the location itself does not comply with international law. The result of the service was however unsuccessful due to the failure of providing required infrastructure server for the service. At the same time, the service failed to gather enough clients. The idea of Havenco is one of the most close model of Crytonomicon, the famous novel by Neil Stephenson.

It is hard to say that Havenco is anonymous networking service, even though the spectrum of service guarantees the anonymity. Instead, Havenco made their presence invisible by placing themselves into a location that is out of the global system.

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