[somerandomone]

> I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.

Can the author reach the US by whatever mean and apply for political asylum? That 'fear that they will suffer persecution due to: ... Political opinion'[0] seems legit.

[0] http://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/refugees-asylum/asylum

[hkmurakami]

> I hope one day I'll live in a country where I have freedom to write any code I like without fearing.

Frankly I don't know if we are that country. :(

[brillenfux]

In the context of a Chinese hacker fearing prison this is awfully cynical hyperbole.

[DanBC]

It's obviously far worse in china, but still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen

[hkmurakami]

Agreed. And even in the small world of my college, this happened for a student writing some filesharing code.

http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2003/05/peng-riaa-settle-i...

[Kim_Bruning]

Seeing the position of the US and UK governments on encryption is coming in-line with china, I would be careful of traveling to those countries.

[59nadir]

Yes, he should move to the US, where he'll be forced to use NSA approved (read: cracked) or no encryption.

[mozumder]

??

US citizens can use any encryption they wish.