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Snowden A Hero? Gates Says No, Woz Says Yes
hcs_$reboot writes "In a lengthy interview from Rolling Stone, Bill Gates, was asked: 'Do you consider [Snowden] a hero or a traitor?' The Microsoft founder responded, 'I certainly wouldn't characterize him as a hero. ... You won't find much admiration from me'. What about government surveillance? 'The government has such ability to do these things. ... But the specific techniques they use become unavailable if they're discussed in detail. Rolling Stone retorts that privacy can be an issue: 'We want safety, but we also want privacy,' says the journalist. Bill Gates tells his main priority focuses on stopping the bad guys: 'Let's say you knew nothing was going on. How would you feel? I mean, seriously. I would be very worried. Technology arms the bad guys with orders of magnitude more [power]. Not just bad guys. Crazy guys.' Meanwhile, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expressed the opposite opinion about Snowden at a tech conference in Germany. 'He is a hero to me, but he may be a traitor to other people and I understand the reasons for them to think that way. I believe that Snowden believed, like I do, that the U.S. has a right to freedom. '"
you mean apart for the fact the germany was working on their own atomic bomb project, http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/physics/brau/H182/Term%20papers%20'02/Matt%20E.htm
Quote: The policies of Hitler’s Nazi Germany alienated not only the Jewish community but also many others who feared the rise of fascism in both Germany and Italy. Just a few examples of those who fled include such notable scientists as Nobel Laureates Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, and Enrico Fermi. What this obviously meant is that many leading scientists contributed not to the German effort but rather to the American effort to develop the bomb. Germany was now not only missing many brilliant minds who could have worked on the project, but also many other scientists who could have conducted experiments to contribute information.