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MI5 Hiring Industrial Espionage IT Support Staff
AmiMoJo writes "A recent job posting by MI5 seeks to recruit 'Data Exploitation Specialists.' The core of the role is described as 'provid[ing] tactical solutions and operational support to business users of information exploitation systems.' In other words, industrial espionage. This open admission comes at a time when the UK and its partners are accusing China of the same thing. Pot, meet kettle?"
I'm shocked, I tell you!
The submitter/editor is deriving a whole lot of meaning out of words that say absolutely nothing. I can't see anything here to suggest that there's anything more to this story than the submitter/editor seeing 'exploitation' as a scary word and reading into it from there.
Nothing to see here... move along....
you guys act like this covert stuff is new. no longer do we have to recruit, train, and select from a pool of beautiful, intelligent women to extract corporate and government secrets from the higher echelons of our enemies cultural and societal ladder.
instead, just hire a neckbeard.
Read the damned ad. They're looking for big data analysts, not hackers. The lead ad copy is just buzzword speak.
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When the countries that are behind international intellectual property laws are the main offenders the whole concept turns into a worldwide scam.
A careful reading of the content of the ad makes it clear its about providing MI5 with the tools to exploit the data that it's collecting NOT making that data available to commercial groups. It's depressing that the poster misread it, and the editor didn't spike this submission; this is how a board like Slashdot gets known as conspiracy theorists.
If only "Jumping to Conclusions" was an Olympic event!
This, if I am correct is domestic UK job spec as befits MI5, overseas work done by MI6. This may well be in conjunction with the likes of http://www.cesg.gov.uk/Pages/homepage.aspx with the aim of keeping UK business and IP safe from prying eyes.
Remember the time Boeing got a boost from intelligence about Airbus.
Been done for decades. America is NOT our friend and we should stop treating it as such.
Hack their website, trash the other applicants CV's. Then when you're convicted ask for community service time for with MI5. So after your sentence is up, you can apply, ask for a raise, and promotion all at the same time !
They are looking for people who can, in Hollywood-speak, 'cross-reference' data to produce information.
Yet another argument for being able to moderate the posts themselves: and the editors who post them.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
I was hoping this was M5. Much rather work there!
Soulskill may well be right. This is NOT your everyday intel analyst:
" ...
As part of a pioneering IT function, you will be a key participant in the design and delivery of a variety of strategic programmes and business critical initiatives within a dynamic, challenging workplace.
The role
You will provide tactical solutions and operational support to business users of information exploitation systems. You will create new data ingest processes, advise team members about their design and implementation and support data management processes within our organisation.
"
I've worked inside several US intel orgs, but I've never seen a spy role where you "support business users" to better exploit THEIR data.
This *is* weird.
I just hope there are a whole lot of whistleblowers in this crop.
We really need a lot more people involved in these programs to start talking to journalists or posting documents on Wikileaks. Our window to do something about this government overreach and the total surveillance state is closing fast. But we still have a shot at stopping it if there are some people working for these agencies (and for corporate snoopers) who have courage and care about future generations.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Because it has the word "business" in it, twice, right?
Wrong.
You're obviously too young to remember the fad of using "customers" to mean anyone you talked to or even looked at, and not people who buy stuff from you.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
admiral ackbar:"IT"S A TRAP!"
Every moment needs a villain! Once in a millennia we plain folk get to b heroes.
Now... leave us!
It's not wierd at all. The big deal in spookland these days is making sense of the data they have, not getting more of it. I'd guess the US have a hell of an edge in this regard and the UK is playing catchup.
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"provid[ing] tactical solutions and operational support to business users of information exploitation systems" does not mean "Industrial Espionage".
This is an ad for Data Mining staff, nothing more. The ad doesn't say anything about where the information comes from, what it's for, or what it is. "Business users" refers to non-IT staff, not people outside government being given access to privileged information. Even in government, they use the same terms as private-sector IT to refer to end-users (a.k.a. "business users") vs. IT.
I'm not saying MI5 isn't doing anything evil, but I AM saying this ad doesn't give you any new information one way or another.
Paraphrasing another poster: I see a new customer for the "Jumping to Conclusions Mat" from Office Space!
It's common in the UK to refer to internal stakeholders as customers or business users.
When they see business users they mean 'analysts with no technical background who need to understand this'.
... and wondered WTF Mythbusters wanted with Data Exploitation Specialists.
"At MI5 you'll sharpen your skills working with the latest technologies and brightest minds." "Brightest minds"? Pathetic wretches. No one with a single strand of moral fiber will work for the spooks, anywhere. And a technician without moral fiber is a hireling and devoid of sustainable creativity. The brightest minds are those who work because they love it. Who but the brain-dead wd work for the most disgusting people in human history and love it? Excepted of course are those who work inside the system to wreck it ;o)
Apart from the reading fail of the submitter/editor. MI5 is the domestic agency; they spy on us, not on foreign businesses.
Suck-style anti-faggots.
signed,
Ploscx