There is an old, two-year HN discussion [1] on the danger of traveling for hackers (logically, the thread morphed into a heated discussion on the Spanish Inquis

There is an old, two-year HN discussion [1] on the danger of traveling for hackers (logically, the thread morphed into a heated discussion on the Spanish Inquisition, because... Hacker News!) and it certainly is scary that open source contributors should now entertain the prospects of arrest...I mean, it is open source, people typically do not get paid for that sort of work...and they could get arrested! Kidding aside, scary indeed.. I do not think that Canada is the only such country to find itself in said position. Only recently, Australia was unsuccessful in preventing the execution of some of its citizens, convicted of drug smuggling in Indonesia. Here [2] is a handy tool that visualizes the percentage of foreign prisoners in most countries around the world while [3] reports on the number of non-nationals facing death penalties mainly in Asia. Also came across these news reports on the many (100s) of Canadians that are in foreign prisons [4]. Question is, how exactly did they get to him so quickly after his arrival? Perhaps they de-anonymized his code [5]. Perhaps the State has a huge database of persons of interest [6]. And by the way, how did they figure out that it was his software that was getting used by porn site webmasters? 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8976882 2. http://chartsbin.com/view/8ns http://chartsbin.com/view/8ns 3. https://www.hri.global/files/2011/09/14/IHRA_DeathPenaltyReport_Sept2011_Web.pdf https://www.hri.global/files/2011/09/14/IHRA_DeathPenaltyRep... 4. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/27/over_1590_canadians_in_foreign_prisons_often_forgotten.html https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/10/27/over_1590_can... ; http://globalnews.ca/news/2542128/not-enough-being-done-to-help-hundreds-of-canadians-detained-abroad-lawyers/ http://globalnews.ca/news/2542128/not-enough-being-done-to-h... ; http://o.canada.com/news/almost-2000-canadians-held-in-foreign-prisons http://o.canada.com/news/almost-2000-canadians-held-in-forei... 5. https://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_deanonymizing.pdf https://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_dean... ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMa04HovKfs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMa04HovKfs 6. https://www.iranhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Internet_report-En.pdf https://www.iranhumanrights.org/wp-content/uploads/Internet_... ; http://voiceproject.org/post_news/inside-irans-judicial-crackdown-activist-artists/ http://voiceproject.org/post_news/inside-irans-judicial-crac... ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12488420; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12488420; https://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/ONI_NameofGod_1_08_2011.pdf https://opennet.net/sites/opennet.net/files/ONI_NameofGod_1_...