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Information Technology News James Bond Online: the strange tale of MI6, Facebook and eBay
Information Technology News James Bond Online: the strange tale of MI6, Facebook and eBay | James Bond Online: the strange tale of MI6, Facebook and eBay |
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| by Davey Winder | |
| Tuesday, 30 September 2008 | |
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MI6 is the British 'Secret Service' agency, you know the one that sends James Bond types out across the world to "promote and defend national security." It provides the British Government, so says the official SIS website with a global covert capability to do just that. Featured Whitepaper
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Sure, there is already a section of the MI6 website that deals with recruiting and there are current vacancies for 'case officers' if you are interested. A case officer, by the way, "plan and carry out covert intelligence operations overseas" which sounds an awful lot like spying to me. Ah yes, here it is "they gather the secret intelligence the Government needs to promote and defend UK national interests." MI6 are "particularly interested in people with skills in Mandarin, Arabic, Dari, Farsi and Pashto" so they say. Anyway, no mention of Facebook. Yet the stiff upper lip of Government intelligence seems to be wavering a little as MI6 is definitely embracing social networking. Which makes a change from the usual trick of recruiting directly from the cream of Oxford and Cambridge university students. So how is MI6 using Facebook to find the next James Bond? More on page 2... CONTINUES |
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