[erdos4d]

I'm not sure about employing a person anonymously, but I would expect it is more viable for a US/EU/etc company to purchase a deliverable instead. I'm unaware of any actual requirement for companies to verify that the foreign entity is legit if they are simply purchasing a "product" from them, at least. If our hypothetical engineer simply presented himself as an Afghan consulting company and sold code, I doubt anyone would question anything, especially if the invoices looked legit. Being able to sell code for crypto anonymously is my dream though, I'd love to see someone work that out.