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Bill Gates Calls Edward Snowden a Criminal But Steve Wozniak Says He’s a Hero – Video

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Edward Snowden pops in at TED to take back the internet

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SURVEILLANCE WHISTLEBLOWER Edward Snowden appeared on stage in a TED talk as a mobile robot head.

Snowden is at risk of being arrested by the authorities if he travels, so he has chosen to appear at a few recent events virtually.

A Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) event took this a bit further and installed Snowden in a mobile telepresence robot for his talk with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Chris Anderson.

Snowden, who was speaking from somewhere in Russia, said that more PRISM revelations are still to be released, and suggested that they might be even more damning.

The talk was billed as a 'pop in', and Snowden was on stage for around half an hour. He started by saying that the PRISM story is not about him, nor his character, and that he expected discussion to focus on what is important, and away from his hero or traitor status.

"Who I am doesn't matter at all. Hate me and move on," he said. "What matters here are the issues. That's what I hope the debate moves towards." He added that he would not call himself either a traitor or a hero, but rather a citizen of the US.

Snowden said that if he thought that his revelations would not have been smothered by using official channels he would have used those channels. Working with journalists let him give that information directly to US citizens and start a debate. He added that he is "comfortable with the decisions that I have made", and added that despite protests, no harm has resulted from the leaks.

Anderson pulled up a slide that showed how technology companies provide access to their data. Snowden said that the data comes from company servers, but added that each company deals with requests in a different way. "It comes from the companies themselves," he said.

"The biggest thing that an internet company can do right now is to enable SSL on every page that you visit," he said. "If you look at... [the novel] 1984 on Amazon.com the NSA can see that... [Amazon doesn't] use encryption by default and we can't use it to browse. All companies need to move to encrypted browsing by default."

Snowden said that the NSA has a system of boundless informants that collects more information on citizens than the equivalent Russian agency does on its own people.

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Snowden Docs Expose How the NSA "Infects" Millions of Computers, Impersonates Facebook Server – Video

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Snowden makes surprise TED appearance, called ‘hero’ by inventor of web

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Edward Snowden made a surprise appearance at the TED Conference in Vancouver Tuesday, telling the audience via video chat that some of the most important reporting on the National Security Agency has yet to come.

Snowden, who according to TED organizer Chris Anderson spoke from an undisclosed location in Russia, said he was comfortable with the decisions he made because there has been no evidence of a specific instance of harm, as a result of his leaking of documents.

Anderson then brought Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, on stage, and asked if he thought Snowden was a traitor or a hero, Wired.com reported. Berners-Lee called Snowden in short, a hero.

Snowden said he would welcome U.S. amnesty, but said he wont stop working in the public interest just to benefit myself.

Snowdens appearance comes a week after he appeared via video conference at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. There, Snowden said the NSA was setting fire to the future of the Internet, calling the festivals attendees firefighters.

The former NSA contractor fled the United States for Russia, where he has received temporary asylum, after leaking documents disclosing details of the U.S. government's surveillance of the Internet and telephone communications.

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Edward Snowden, Cyborg Thought Leader

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Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden appears by remote-controlled robot at a TED conference in Vancouver on March 18, 2014.

Photo by GLENN CHAPMAN/AFP/Getty Images

It wasn't the newsiest moment in Edward Snowden's address to TED, which he delivered via video that was streamed through a robot. (Check out the picture.) The news, as ever, was probably Snowden's claim that "some of the most important reporting" on his revelations "is yet to come." This is probably true. The archives of documents stolen by Snowden have been enough to support breaking news at the Washington Post, the Guardian, andPro Publica, to name a few outlets that got some access; an entirely new media company, First Look, was launched on the strength of what Glenn Greenwald, et al. could find in the archives.

So, no, not newsy, but the part of Snowden's Q&A that stuck out to me was his gleeful swipe at Dick Cheney.

This is not the first time Snowden has made fun of Cheney, whose appeal to the D.C. chat circuit has not dimmed even after he helped his daughter make a spectacular hash of a U.S. Senate primary. Last year, Cheney came up on a Guardian chat and Snowden called it an "honor" to be insulted by the guy.

So Snowden, who recently turned 30, is adept at the art of insult trading with political figures. Why does it matter? Well, some of the (embryonic) discussion of whether Snowden should leave Russia and give himself up to American justice comes out of the theory that Snowden should become an advocate for his cause. He has controlled his image like ... well, like a guy who doesn't give out his contact info and lives in a country that American journalists need a visa to visit. In the last few months, he's given interviews to Bart Gellman, SXSW, and TED, all of which 1) broke the news he wanted, 2) avoided the news he didn't (no one has asked him, in a public forum, anything about Russian politics or the Crimean incursion), and 3) allowed him to describe his whistleblowing in heroic terms. In the SXSW interview, he even appeared before a screen blow-up of the Constitution.

Snowden is winning, as shown by the polls and the fumbling responses of American politicians. He's even come up with a reason for his skeptics to distrust the NSA. "If we hack Chinese business and steal its secrets, or those in Berlin, thats of less value to the American people than making sure that the Chinese cant get access to our secrets," he said at TED. "In reducing the security of our own communications, theyre putting us at risk in a fundamental way."

Snowden has outlived the D.B. Cooper mystery that defined his public debut, and is now situated for a long game in which he becomes more popular and harder to call a traitor. His revelations already won Greenwald/Poitras the Polk Award. What happens after someone wins the Pulitzer? Check the next white-hat tech conference on the schedule; we'll probably hear it there.

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