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Re: e$: crypto-expatriatism
(Note: my original message was posted to Cypherpunks, which I consider
to be substantially different than DBS: had I been posting to DBS, I would
have included different details...list differentiation is kin of useful,
it's why the different lists were created in the first place)
>
> At 3:38 PM -0400 on 9/7/98, Robert Hettinga wrote about Ryan Lackey's
> whereabouts, on cypherpunks:
>
> > If I told you, I would have to kill you?
I never said this. If you'd like to fabricate/summarize/editorialize,
please make it clear that that's what you're doing, by using the traditionally
accepted editorial convention of square brackets, or some other convention.
I prefer Chicago Manual of Style, but I'm sure the AP Stylebook is acceptable.
>
> Whew. Glad Ryan has now said something publically now about his and Ian's bit
> of extraterritorial subtrifuge (though Ian doesn't qualify, of course). I
> mean, I just *hate* keeping secrets... ;-).
>
Ian Goldberg isn't involved -- he's working on Zero Knowledge Systems,
AFAIK, and I wish him luck, but I haven't really spoken to him in months. He's
a Canadian, anyway. I haven't mentioned working with anyone else anywhere,
other than that I'm working for "interesting" clients. If you know otherwise,
it isn't particularly public knowledge at this point.
> Frankly, I *really* have a hard time with all this
> man-without-a-first-world-country, crypto-expat stuff. I think making the
> technology not eonomically optional is the way to change things, and no
> amount of romantic, jurisdiction-shopping "regulatory arbitrage" is going
> to alter reality all that much.
I'm not breaking US law. I'm a US citizen. I pay my taxes, respect US
law, etc. It's just that I'm choosing to work on something somewhere other
than the US, for a variety of reasons.
> And, I wish Vince -- and now, apparently, Ryan -- good luck, whatever happens.
Vince formally renounced his citizenship, becoming a citizen of a small
african country, and intends to remain in Anguilla. I left the US
for a while to work on stuff, and to get away from a major US city for
a while. I think there's a huge difference here. What I have
done is fundamentally no different than going to Montana to write code
for a while, other than that it was cheaper and more convenient for me to
come to Anguilla.
(Of course, Vince seems to be doing quite well...) I just happen to not want
to go back to the US right now, it's not that I can't if I decide I want
to at some point.
Thanks,
Ryan
(who generally does not provide confidential information to people
who do not like keeping secrets, out of kindness for them)