That quote hit home for me too. And one a little later that expands on the same idea: > "Assange, by contrast [to Snowden], appears to have no interest in anyo

That quote hit home for me too. And one a little later that expands on the same idea: > "Assange, by contrast [to Snowden], appears to have no interest in anyone’s privacy but his own and his sources’. Private communications, personal information, intimate conversations are all fair game to him. He calls this nihilism “freedom,” and in so doing elevates it to a principle that gives him license to act without regard to consequences."