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?"

Comments

Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

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....

Re:Really?

[hairyfeet]

Oh please! Haven't you read ANYTHING in the past 30+ years? ALL of the major powers are spying their asses off, on each other, on their own people, hell where do you think the Chinese got their stealth tech? They bought the wreck of the wobbly goblin that went down in Kosovo, had it boxed up and shipped, and the rumor is they also paid for access to the stealth drone Iran caught.

Re:Really?

[Anonymous Coward]

Spy agencies spy. But saying that this job posting is specifically related to industrial spying in any way is completely unsupported, which is the premise of the submission. For all you know, and for all the posting makes clear, this could be about exploiting data to learn about how civil servants supporting the agency are scheduled and paid as to eliminate inefficiency. Reading anything more specific is this is pure paranoia. Reading your worldview, fears, and politics into a document to give it a new meaning which just isn't there is not unlike the kind of thinking that leads to the 'truther' movement, climate related pontificating (either side), and other forms of stupid group-think.

So I urge you to get a grip... after all you'll need it to pull your head out given how firmly it's planted.... and consider what is being said and what honest conclusions you can draw from it. While MI5 may very well engage in industrial espionage, this isn't the job posting you're looking for.

This is nonsense

[u38cg]

Read the damned ad. They're looking for big data analysts, not hackers. The lead ad copy is just buzzword speak.

Really really NOT what the ad says

[Bruce66423]

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.

Submission -1: Idiot Poster and Editor

[CountBrass]

Yet another argument for being able to moderate the posts themselves: and the editors who post them.

Re: NOT nonsense. READ THE AD.

[RandCraw]

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.