By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 15:03 EST, 26 June 2013 | UPDATED: 15:50 EST, 26 June 2013 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has branded Edward Snowden a hero who acted 'from his heart' - even though the NSA whistleblower himself once said that such leakers should be shot. Wozniak expressed his distress that the technology he built with Steve Jobs in the 1970s is now being used to spy on people's emails and personal information. 'I think Edward Snowden is a hero because this came from his heart,' Wozniak said of Snowden, who leaked details of an NSA program - Prism - that tracks emails and personal details.
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In 2009, Edward Snowden expressed his anger that the New York Times published sensitive information about government programs
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He wrote that the leaks 'violated national security'
Changing views: @placeholder apparently posted online that he thought leakers should 'be shot in the balls'