IDG Contributor Network: Snowden argues for cloud control at OpenStack Summit

Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower and current president of the Freedom of Press Foundation, joined OpenStack Foundation COO Mark Collier on stage at OpenStack Summit (via video conference) and delivered his keynote speech in the form of a Q&A.Snowden might have sounded like a misfit at an open source conference that’s all about building cloud, but he removed all such doubts by drawing a very clear distinction between the public cloud and open source private cloud.He took aim at pu