Steve Wozniak called whistleblower Edward Snowden a “hero,” lauding the former National Security Agency contractor for exposing the government’s classified Internet surveillance program.
“[Snowden’s] a hero to my beliefs about how the Constitution should work,” the Apple co-founder told The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove this week. “[He’s] a hero because this came from his heart. And I really believe he was giving up his whole life because he just felt so deeply about honesty, about spying on Americans, and he wanted to tell us.”
The Woz went on to say that he’s troubled by the idea that the technology he has helped develop is now being utilized to encroach on the privacy of ordinary citizens. “I don’t think the NSA has done one thing valuable for us, in this whole PRISM regard, that couldn’t have been done by following the Constitution and doing it the old way,” he said, referring to the NSA program by its code name.
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