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by mchawk | September 28, 2008 at 02:14 pm
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Britain's Secret Intelligence Service - better known as MI6 - has been openly recruiting for a number of years, their ads often appearing in the London evening newspapers. Now they're advertising for a more tech-savvy type of spy - one who can navigate their way around the convoluted GUI of New Facebook.
The Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) has begun advertising on the website as part of its campaign to recruit operational officers.
The Facebook adverts were launched a few weeks ago in a bid to reach a large and wide variety of people, a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
"The Secret Intelligence Service's open recruitment campaign continues to target wide pools of talent representative of British society today," she added.
"A number of channels are used to promote job opportunities in the organisation. Facebook is a recent example."
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at 15:03 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, I like this story and especially like your headline.
at 15:05 on September 28th, 2008
Hi Rachel - thanks for the flag and comments. You know I can't resist a tabloid-esque headline!
at 15:43 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, interesting story. It's hard to believe an organization as secretive as the SIS is using Facebook as a recruitment tool. I guess it's only a matter of time before they have a MySpace page.
at 15:47 on September 28th, 2008
A matter of time indeed. Have you seen how funky their homepage is? It makes much of the other government websites look like they're badly drawn in crayon.
Thanks for the flag!
at 16:26 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:21 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, I like this story. Here's an additional thought...make William Gibson and Philip K Dick required reading for High School English and/or Soc. Studies. Then hardly anything like this would surprise anyone, even the future could become more transparent, if we discovered and utilized the "Pattern Analysts" among us.
at 18:35 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 19:35 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 19:39 on September 28th, 2008
mchawk, I like this story. It's good stuff. I remember the CIA had something similar, involving an online aptitude test.