Edward Snowden offered data security job

JOB OFFER. A photo made available by Human Rights Watch shows former CIA employee-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden at the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow 12 July 2013. EPA/Tanya Lokshina /Human Rights Watch handout

MANILA, Philippines - After freedom from Sheremetyevo airport and the granting of a year-long asylum in Russia, what's next for Edward Snowden?

If one Russian social network had its way, Edward Snowden may find gainful employment to come more readily than requests for asylum.

In a New York Times round up of social media reactions from members of the Russian community, Pavel Durov, the founder of Russian social network VKontakte, put a job offer out for Snowden.

In the New York Times' translation, Durov wrote,

Today Edward Snowden — the man that exposed the crimes of the U.S. intelligence agencies against citizens across the globe — received temporary asylum in Russia. At such moments, one feels proud of our country and sadness over U.S. policy — a country that has betrayed the principles that it was once built upon.

We invite Edward to St. Petersburg and will be thrilled if he decides to join our stellar team of programmers at VKontakte. At the end of the day, there is no European Internet company more popular than VK. I think Edward might be interested in protecting the personal data of our millions of users.

Prior to receiving word of his asylum grant, Snowden remained at Sheremetyevo airport since late June as the US government revoked his passport. - Rappler.com