Yeah, I don't see where in your article you encourage overstaying visas! I spent the last 7 years living in pacific South America, during the last 4 of which I

Yeah, I don't see where in your article you encourage overstaying visas! I spent the last 7 years living in pacific South America, during the last 4 of which I hacked remotely several months each year. In the rare event that someone is targeted for working in-country, it's almost always because they are doing local work. The infamous example are some of the hippy burnouts 'teaching English' in the cities along the coast. Sometimes those types have a) overstayed their visa, and b) are working illegally in the country in a job that lots of Ecuadoreans would prefer to have. And so they get blackmailed by the owner of the English school! (This actually happens). You would have to be pretty brazen to tempt investigation for working over the internet. Like, if you painted a giant logo on the side of your house with your business name or something. But re: the visa issue, and visa runs: Many countries that allow US citizens to come in as tourists on their passports have totally legal extensions that you can file to the automatic passport visa. In the case of Ecuador, for instance, this lets you legally spend 9 months of every year there without doing more than filing a paper and paying $180 a couple of months after coming into the country. So you take a 3-month trip each year, and otherwise have a stable home base to work out of. :)