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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."
Their first web site that we know about.
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Old news... it's a good thing that our submitters aren't in the intel business! Or.... are they?
Who wants to set up the betting pool on this?
I bet the gambling websites would make a killing.
I got $20 that says it gets wacked in under a week.
Of course starting them out with a nice slashdotting probably doesn't help. heh
No unauthorized use. Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
Better than the FBI's or CIA :(
Slow news day?
More than just English? I'll bet MI6 is dying for some Chinese recruits apparently.
Best bit of the website has to be the operational careers profiles, http://www.mi6.gov.uk/output/Page74.html
James Bond, 42
"I love women and martinins so the 'SIS' flexible work hours suit me perfectly."
So, is the website run by Q? If so, I must say that I'm a little disappointed that my computer doesn't explode when I click on the page three times.
From the FAQ:
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
But they have a pretty good recipe for a Vodka Martini. The Kilgour suit is optional.
What is music when you despise all sound?
Recently Jennifer Garner did a recruiting commercial for the CIA. When I saw it, my first reaction was, "how do I know you're recruiting for the CIA and not for some other organization posing as the CIA?"
Click here. :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
(I'm digging about for a CMS system that has some controls over content (approval, etc), is open source licensed, and outputs static content (ie: I don't want cgi generating every page view on the fly). This MI6/SIS site looks like it might be using something like that. Thoughts?)
I find your ideas intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
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
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.
:)
Sounds to me as if this is a dupe, and its already been slashdotted
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For those interested in television that portrays the SIS in a reasonably accurate light, I highly recommend the Sandbagger series. Available on DVD too.
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.
Whilst I can't comment about Ian Fleming being "fired from spy school", which sounds like a good yarn, I do know that Fleming served for some considerable time in the British Intelligence Service during WWII and held (as Bond did) the rank of Commander RN.
Flemings experience of black ops in wartime directly influenced his concept of what an intelligence agent gets up to and his role in thinking up such ops exposed him to the "funny" sort of kit dreamed up by Q in the Bond books.
Another connection with Bond is that Fleming had a considerable reputation as a womaniser.
I want to know who thought it would be a good idea to have the main page be "/output/Page79.html"
:)
I see the other pages are 47, 53, 55, 65, 57....
This is definitely a website built to governemt spec. Good job boys!
Wikipedia knows it all, here is a list of the worlds intelligence agencies, that is, those we know about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_ agencies
Luxury...
How can I offer intelligence to SIS?
If you are in the UK and believe that you have intelligence of importance to SIS or Her Majesty's Government you may write to SIS at PO Box 1300, London SE1 1BD.
http://www.mi6.gov.uk/output/Page79.html
ha ha
So, now its official. James Bond is a SISsy.....
It's not the secret intelligence service, it's the secret intelligence service. They go after people who seem to be stupid, but are in fact hiding the fact that they are geniuses.
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Unfortunately, no James.
The language choices are interesting: English, Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, and Chinese. My guess as to the reasons: English because it's Britain, Spanish because it's spoken by the non-anglophone Americas, Russian because the USSR was the Cold War enemy, French because it was the international language of diplomacy, Arabic because it's the language of the Middle East (the major intelligence interest today), and Chinese because it's the most common language per capita.
Notable omissions are other European languages and Japanese. Arabic is a very notable inclusion.
I beg to differ
http://cryptome.org/mi6-list4.htm
What? No Daniel Craig pictures?
This is quite an interesting assortment of languages they support there (page bottom I mean): Spanish, Russian, French, Arabic, Chinese, and English.
;)
Which other page is that international
Je me souviens.
This is a really great site, though I sorta hoped that when I went there I would have seen this.
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
Thr British Reconnaissance Office, (BRO) has no website.
--- If you could save time in a bottle, would it have an expiration date?
Typically I have the highest respect for FBI and CIA agents. However, you really don't want to take into consideration the current group under the WMD and terrorism cases. That group is politically brain washed and filtered to fit on your TV by the Bush administration. I am surprise they don't go on the news bragging about their security clearance.
I guess that's the famous British politeness shining though.
... but then I'd have to kill you.
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
Their html page naming convention and hierarchy organisation are as mysterious and secretive as their operations . . .
It's good to see that they're sticking to the apparent official font of Britain, Gill Sans.
Security person: "We'll have to do background checks on you going back to the UK".
Friend: "That's OK, I have full positive vetting from the British security services."
Security person: Silence then "Shit, that's going to be a problem. All those guys are commie faggots"
In the end he did get clearance. Or he may not have done. People in that sort of business, you never know when they are telling the truth.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
It'd just be an embarrassment, not an actual security risk.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
This has been avaliable for a while http://www.unit.org.uk/
Do YOU want to be the one signing the letter that puts hundreds of trained assassins out of work?
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
[Int shot of Scorpio's secret lair. Agent 007 is tied down to the top of several servers.] /.]
Bond: Scorpio! Do you expect me to talk
Scorpio: No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die.
[Close up of Scorpio posting the server's http onto
Scorpio: MUWHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
They must be elite. /national_secrets".
Found nothing on google for "index of
Defining Statistics and Social Research
While MI5's Myths/FAQ section explicitly states that MI5 does not assassinate people, the question is not present in MI6's FAQs. (Incidentally, I personally don't believe that MI6 assassinates people, but I wonder if they deliberately left the question out).
Reality is defined by the maddest person in the room
Um, the total blame is put on Bush (or "the Bush Organisation" as you put it) because:
The buck stops here.
Watch this Heartland Institute video
And we should be deeply thankful that they are.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
MI6/SIS => CIA
MI5 => NSA
Everyone's heard of MI5 and MI6, so nobody bothers to ask where 1-4 went.
Becasue those languages are the most common in England?
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
...according to Netcraft they're running Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer under Linux. Of course they're also probably bluffing ;)