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Britain's MI6 Opens Its First Website

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the sshh-don't-tell-anyone dept.

An anonymous reader wites "Britain's spy agency the Secret Intelligence Service, known popularly as MI6, has opened its first website. While much about the agency is still not public, the website has information on service history and career opportunities for would-be spies. This rare peek at the real group popularized by the James Bond series brought over 3.5 million visits in its first few opening hours on Wednesday."

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  1. Geez... by buffy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this was news two weeks ago.

  2. Re:Nice website by Ninjaesque+One · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Ceasarian crypts are, as is implied by the name, several thousands of years old. These people could guess your encryption in a minute.

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    Ninjas and pirates. How piquant.
  3. That's exactly the problem with these guys by aurelian · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    This is of course primarly a recruitment website, and they know their target market: saddo jerks like themselves who get off on the idea that they are in a real-life spy movie. I'm sure the weenies who join the CIA are the same: probably all want to be in a Tom Clancy novel. Then they prick around spending enormous amounts of our money, and what do we get for it: reports about 'threats' here and baddies there, all self-sustaining bullshit which doesn't seem to have to be accounted for like everybody else's work does.

    If my company was responsible for any one of the massive fuckups which the intelligence agencies serve up on a regular basis we'd be out of business permanently. Some of the mistakes they make are remedial, like basing 'confident' WMD reports on the testimony of a few individuals who had a clear interest in having the US invade Iraq. And yet we're still paying for them to come up with more 'intelligence', and passing whatever fucked-up laws they ask for so they can gather more data - even though they are incapable of using the enormous amount of data they already have. Where's the hard evidence that it's worth the money? Who audits them and where do we see the results? Oh sorry - it's top secret.