Annual Hackers Congress gets underway in Prague

The seventh Hackers Congress, a three-day event hosted by the Prague centre Paralení Polis, gets underway in Prague on Friday. The main focus of this year’s event is Digital Totality and the safety of data in on-line environments.

Guest speakers this year include US economist David Friedman, a leading proponent of anarcho-capitalism, and Riccardo Spagni, who was the lead maintainer of Monero, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency project.