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> On the same day, Pavel Durov, CEO of the social network VKontakte, offered Snowden a job as a security software developer.

In his career, hasn't Snowden been more of a sys admin type?[1]. Putting all the hoopla/outrage over his leaks aside, from a career perspective, would Snowden be qualified for a developer role? I guess my question is whether Durov's motivation is to get PR points or to get a suitable engineer for that role.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/01/us/job-title-key-to-inner-...




I'd imagine both potentially, he could always work in a security system administrator role alongside the main development team.

Definitely good PR though.


That's what I'm saying, it's no more than just stupid PR aimed at laymen.




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