The Government of Evilland promptly sets their Evil Internet Goon Squad on the task of finding and eliminating the network server serving this page. They attempt to flood the TCP stack, take down nearby routers, send harassing emails to the ISP, etc. etc. until the page goes away. Something amazingly cool is published on the internet, and within minutes news of its existence has multiplied through the geometry of email forwarding and IRC to literally millions of interested onlookers. Each of them loads the resource, even if just to see what all the fuss is about. The site the resource is published on is completely swamped, and falls over from the strain of trying to satisfy all the requests.
Nobody gets to see it at all.
You implement a security system which relies on the availability of public or private crypto keys. You encrypt everything, and as soon as you finish, the one disk which is holding the crypto keys crashes. The Wandering Eccentric A very smart person, known and loved to many a computer user, wanders the globe sleeping on various peoples' couches and taking leftovers from their fridge in exchange for little gems of advice which come from the twisted recesses of her genius mind. She is not affiliated with any institution or even a reliable ISP, since she has no permanent address for billing or anything. Nonetheless she is regularly in front of a terminal, wanting to check her mail, edit her files, have emacs start up just the right way, etc.