- Secure Dark Web Portal Launched by MI6 offers new contact route for potential informants
- Agency hopes that Silent Courier will attract Russian sources and others with secrets
- MI6 gives TOR and VPN -Guide to help informants protect their identity
British intelligence agency MI6 has launched a new dark web portal designed to help it create secure contact with potential informants in Russia and all over the world.
The new Silent Courier Platform is designed to allow people with sensitive information to send messages to the agency without postponing their identity.
Outgoing MI6 manager Richard Moore is expected to confirm the launch during a speech in Istanbul. “Today, we ask them with sensitive information on global instability, international terrorism or hostile state intelligence activity to contact MI6 safely online,” Moore will, according to a foreign office statement. “Our virtual door is open to you.”
Carefully reviewed
The spy agency has published multilingual guidance explaining how to use the system on its official YouTube channel, as you can see below.
The steps, if you want to follow them, need to include the download of the Tor browser, run a reliable VPN and use a device that is not linked to your personal identity.
If this was the late 1990s or early 2000s, and a movie, it would probably involve setting up camp at an internet cafe.
Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said the new approach is part of the efforts to keep the United Kingdom one step ahead of opponents and noticed, “World -class intelligence agencies are on the coal phase of this challenge and are working behind the scenes to keep the British people safe.”
The move is repeating a strategy adopted by the US central intelligence agency, which has also tried to attract Russian agents online following a harmful breach in China that postponed its networks.
Silent Courier represents the first time MI6 has offered a dedicated platform on the dark web.
The agency emphasized that all information sent through the system will be carefully reviewed.
Moore, who has been the head of MI6 for five years, will soon go down and will be replaced by Blaise Metreweli, who will be the first woman to lead the service.
For a service that is often closely linked to James Bond, launch shows how the real world’s modern espionage is increasingly shaped by technology rather than Martinis and Aston Martins.
Via BBC
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