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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. This, I like. by oberondarksoul · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  2. SIS is their name - but URL is mi6 by daveb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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