Steve Wozniak on Snowden: “I think he’s a hero"

[DesMoinesDem]

Steve Wozniak: Snowden ‘Is a Hero Because This Came From His Heart’
by Lloyd Grove Jun 26, 2013 4:45 AM EDT
The Apple co-founder tells Lloyd Grove why he supports the NSA leaker, how the agency hasn’t ‘done one thing valuable for us’ in regard to Prism—and why the Internet wasn’t supposed to be this way.

Computer whiz Steve Wozniak is more than a little distressed that the technology he helped develop nearly four decades ago is being used on a massive scale to invade people’s privacy.

He’s especially troubled by the secret intrusions into the private emails of American citizens by the National Security Agency—secret, that is, until the recent detailed revelations of the NSA’s Prism program of electronic surveillance by a 29-year-old NSA contractor turned fugitive named Edward Snowden.

“I think he’s a hero,” said the 62-year-old Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs and invented the Apple I and Apple II personal computers that launched a technological revolution. “He’s a hero to my beliefs about how the Constitution should work. 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.”

Sitting down with me on Tuesday at the Ford Motor Co. campus in Dearborn, Michigan, during the “Go Further With Ford” 2013 Trend Conference, Wozniak added: “I don’t think terrorism is war. I think terrorism is a crime. And by using the word ‘war’ we’ve managed to use all these weird ways to say the Constitution doesn’t apply in the case of a war. And I think Edward Snowden is 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.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/26/steve-wozniak-snowden-is-a-hero-because-this-came-from-his-heart.html

[aquart]

1. Uh...

[dkf]

2. :)

[Thinkingabout]

3. Interesting, if he had a spy in his operation who would tell his deveoping information to others

Would he still feel the same way, their conscience was telling them to do so. If Snowden is his hero one wonders who he thinks as a zero. If Snowden had sold all of the information to perhaps China then China would make the money.

[JoeyT]

6. Derp!

Wozniak doesn't have the force of law behind him nor does he have the ability to spy on US citizens. He's not an elected official that's answerable to the public about programs he's been keeping secret.

IF HIS HOUSE WAS ON FIRE HE WOULDN'T BE SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT CAMPFIRE!!!

I have to admit, it's a novel debate strategy.

[gulliver]

4. More (implied) posthumous credit for Steve Jobs. nt

[HiPointDem]

8. ?

[Th1onein]

5. I agree with Wozniak, but you know something? You're missing the point.

This is not about Snowden. This is about the surveillance state and how close we are to turnkey tyranny.

[Thinkingabout]

7. He has you fooled, the surveillance has been known if one was paying attention and follow up

Statements by Snowden shows it is all about Snowden. BTW, when you dine with buzzards you can't be soaring with eagles.

[B Calm]

9. another reason not to buy Apple products!