One of the first companies to offer Snowden employment after he was granted asylum in Russia this summer was VKontakte, Russia's Facebook rip-off, which publicly invited the former NSA contractor to work for it on his first day in the Russian wild. Since then, however, VK founder Pavel Durov has conceded that perhaps making such a public offer wasn't the best way to get Snowden on his payroll. "Currently Edward tries to keep a low profile, and my offer was public: it could be a problem,"