QOTD: Edward Snowden on Motivation for NSA Whistleblowing

From an article at UK’s The Guardian, Snowden…

…has had “a very comfortable life” that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves.

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“I’m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”

—Edward Snowden