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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. /. = News for Nerds.... five days late by MBraynard · · Score: 4, Informative
    October 12.

    Slow news day?

  2. Re:Nice website by LnxAddct · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well in defense of the FBI & CIA, both of their sites provide a lot more information. The SIS site provides minimal information so its easier to keep it clean. Regardless, the SIS site is not as cool as the NSA's :) (In particular the flash based one, its one of the few flash sites that are done well).
    Regards,
    Steve

  3. I dunno, the CIA's website is pretty nice by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Informative

    After all it has the World Factbook. Probably the best resource I've ever seen for getting basic information on countries. For every country it has a map, gorgraphic and demographic information, information on the government, the military, communications, etc. If you hear a country mentioned, it's a great place to go to get basic background on that country. One would assume it's fairly accurate as well.

  4. Re:SIS is their name - but URL is mi6 by Lurk3r · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe its because MI6.gov.uk really isnt their main site, just a simple redirect. http://www.sis.gov.uk/ Is actually their homepage.