I'm in alignment with my fellow panellists when I say I would come closer on the hero side than the villain. I think that, even if you just look at the conversations we've started to have now about mass surveillance, about what limits there should be, about whether it's effective, whether it's useful, all of those kinds of conversations were started once we knew exactly some of the things that were happening in the world.
I'm part of an international civil liberties group. I can tell you that people engaged in civil society work from every country have been using the information that he put out in order to start conversations in their societies about the appropriate limits of surveillance, and about the appropriate ways that we weigh privacy rights and security rights in democratic societies. I think he made a very valuable contribution.