Do you like martinis shaken, not stirred? If you dream of joining James Bond at Britain’s foreign intelligence agency MI6, you better know how to use a virtual private network. On Friday, outgoing MI6 chief Richard Moore said: has announced a new dark web portal called Silent Courier, which MI6 will use to recruit agents online. If you want to use it, make sure you know about VPN.
“Silent Courier” marks MI6’s first attempt to use the Dark Web for recruitment purposes. The government statement said the platform’s anonymity allows “anyone, anywhere in the world, with access to sensitive information related to terrorism or hostile intelligence to participate and offer their services to the UK in a secure manner.”
The statement also specifically mentions “potential new agents in Russia and around the world.”
MI6 will publish instructions on how to access the recruitment portal on his verified YouTube channeland advises interested parties to “use VPNs and trusted devices that are not connected to each other to limit the risks that exist in certain countries.”
A VPN encrypts your internet traffic and masks your IP address to protect knowledge of your physical location. Therefore, it makes sense that a Russian who dreams of spying on his own country would not want to reveal his whereabouts.
The US has tried something similar
The statement says the MI6 portal is similar to an approach used by the CIA, which posted videos on social media in 2023 targeting potential Russian spies.
such a videoThe document, published in January 2024, sought to convince Russians, who may have been unhappy with Russia’s war in Ukraine, to join the United States as spies.
According to Reuters, the video portrays a fictional Russian military intelligence officer as a patriot who loves Russia but feels betrayed by the corruption of the country’s leaders. The last frame of the video shows him contacting the CIA via cell phone.
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