Could VKontakte be Edward Snowden's next employer?

August 03, 2013 01:18

On the same day Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor now on the run from U.S. authorities, was issued temporary asylum by Russia and travel documents so he could leave Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, he also got a job offer.

Pavel Durov, the 28-year-old founder and chief executive of Vkontakte, Russia's most popular social network, proposed that Snowden come work for the company.

"We invite Edward to St. Petersburg, and we will be happy if he decides to join Vkontakte's star-studded programming team,' Durov wrote in a post on his Vkontakte page. "I think Edward might be interested in working on protecting the personal data of millions of our users.'

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