He also didn't come across to me as the lowly sysadmin that the US government portrays him to be.
Edit: Clarity
I know plenty of people in the IT industry who have well considered views on privacy but who aren't senior in any corporate sense.
If allows himself to be caught, the US government will have a golden opportunity to make an example of him. He will receive a show trial, go to prison, and future whistleblowers will have no one to champion their cause. He has a responsibility to not let this happen.
It's not about Snowden. It's about a single individual standing up against the most powerful government in the world, kicking it in the shins, and getting away with it. Snowden's capture and "trial" would change the narrative to "some loser IT guy broke the law and justice was served".
Snowden is winning. His work is pretty much done. He needs to shut the fuck up and lay low.
To me his comment was meant in the sense that he doesn't regret what he has done even if that means Guantanamo. He's staying in Russia and not volunteering to hand himself in to the USG but if worst comes to worst he has no regrets about what he has done.
But also it's really easy to say that you would be okay with a situation until you've been through it. Some methods of torture look pretty mild until you've experienced them first hand. "Pouring water over a cloth that is covering your face" seems unpleasant but not the kind of thing that could cause you to break your own arm as you struggle to avoid it.
Also I noticed he mentioned using Spideroak instead of Dropbox - they are about to get a hell of a lot more customers...It's great to see business competing over privacy.
I'm sure the US authorities can too so that feels like agreement at last... ;-)
