Slashdot Mirror
Britain's MI6 Opens Its First Website
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."
When I was young "nerd" news were read on magazines. We must wait one month, but usually two or three to get some news of an event.
Now anything older than 1 or 2 days seems old news.
If a history is old 5 days after it arrises, may be that history isn't as important as to mention it. After a century of existence MI6 opens a web, and 5 days later isn't it interesting?
Internet is a great site to read news, but makes people very impatient.
My city: Barcelona.
Having given the website a quick look, I'm pretty pleased with how it's turned out. The layout's clear and understandable, it's got a few images but not too many to be especially taxing, and it has some nice features - switching the globe from night to day is cool, and implemented without using Flash, hurrah! On the whole, not bad.
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
Like bombing the Underground?
Illegal narcotics: Likewise, the CIA and M16 are great at stopping illegal narcotics, they're so good that the street price has been dropping steadily.
Judging by the lack of factual objectivity in your post, and your knowledge on the street prices of narcotics, I think now would be a good time for you to check-in to a rehab facility?
I wonder why they use the domain name mi6.gov.uk when they make such a big deal of their REAL name being SIS, with Mi6 being mostly a movie thing
see http://www.mi6.gov.uk/output/Page50.html
There's an old saying in the trade. Those who know dont talk, and those who talk usually dont know. Not trying to be insulting, but think about that next time one of these guys reveals "trade" secrets.
How many tax dollars have been spent on stuff like National Reconnassiance Office for Kids? Not enough, if you subscribe to the theory that if it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.
But there's a certian value in the idea of the site: if you work there, how are you going to explain what you do at work to your kids. Without having to kill them, I mean.
One might ask the same about birds. What ARE birds? We just don't know.
That should be your first clue that these people are not really good guys, but just guys that happen to be working for us. This whole stupid spy business is glamorized but people forget that you basically need to recruit sociopaths for the murdering. You hire some people who have zero empathy and send them out to kill people.
This is not James Bond, this is simply setting psychologically damaged people on assignments of dubious moral character. Whether we need these people or not is beside the fact that they are sociopaths who don't always even have a real strong attachment to their own government/country (e.g. Robert Hansen).
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
This whole stupid spy business is glamorized but people forget that you basically need to recruit sociopaths for the murdering. You hire some people who have zero empathy and send them out to kill people.
And this is different from a soldier in a regular army who's "just following orders" when they kill people, in what way exactly?
N.
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
Being SIS rather than something more computer security oriented (like GCHQ), I'd expect it is possible that they will get hacked.
It's the SIS, i'd think that they'd make sure they have the best security available to them.
Oh s**t!