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> 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. :(

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

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

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

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.

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

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US citizens can use any encryption they wish.