MI5 Hiring Industrial Espionage IT Support Staff 38
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?"
Submission -1: Idiot Poster and Editor (Score:4, Insightful)
Yet another argument for being able to moderate the posts themselves: and the editors who post them.
Re:Really? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.