&gt;Now, there exists a group of people, of which Assange is one (as far as I can tell), who believe that spying is wrong, and governmental secrecy is wrong.<p>Let me tell you how to defend against that, because there will always be some of those people. Spy as little as possible, conceal it as much as you can, don&#x27;t share your spy info to catch drug dealers, in fact, don&#x27;t use it to prosecute crime at all, use it to stop real terrorist violence in progress and let some other jokers take the credit, use it to fact check diplomatic shenanigans. Spying and policing have zero business together in a free society.