Like your Martinis, isn’t it stirred? If you dream of joining James Bond for the UK Foreign Intelligence Agency MI6, you’d better know how to use it Virtual Private Network. On Friday, Sir Richard Moore, the outgoing MI6 director, Announced a new dark site Silent Courier, known as MI6, will be used to recruit agents online. If you want to use it, make sure you are familiar with VPNs.
Silent Courier marks the first attempt at MI6 to use the dark web for recruitment. The government statement noted that the platform’s anonymity allows “anyone anywhere in the world to access sensitive information related to terrorist or hostile intelligence activities to securely contact the UK and provide its services.”
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The statement continues to call for “potential new agents in Russia and around the world” in particular.
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MI6 will release instructions on how to access the recruitment portal On a verified YouTube channelAnd advise those interested in “using trusted VPNs and devices that are not related to themselves to mitigate risks in certain countries”.
VPNs encrypt your Internet traffic and mask your IP address to protect your knowledge of physical location. So it makes sense that a Russian who dreams of surveillance on his country may not want to reveal his position.
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The United States tried something similar
The statement noted that the MI6 portal is similar to the approach adopted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, which released social media videos targeting potential Russian spies in 2023.
A video like thisReleased in January 2024, an attempt to convince the Russians that they may be unhappy with Russia’s war in Ukraine, joining the United States as a spy.
According to Reuters, in the video, the fictional employee of the Russian military intelligence agency was called a patriot and loved Russia but felt betrayed by the corruption of the country’s leadership. During the final shot of the video, he was seen contacting the CIA via his cell phone.
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