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Real-Life Spies Troll Each Other Over Wordle
Wordle continues its gentle taking over of the world. In the days following the surprise announcement that the New York Times is buying the game for at least a million bucks, the head of the UK secret intelligence service, MI6, tweeted complaining about people’s results from the word game appearing on Twitter timelines. He was…
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British Spies Accused Of Gathering Untold Social Media Data On Innocents, ‘Unlawfully’ Sharing It With Foreign Powers
British spy agencies have collected and shared huge databases of personal and social media information on millions of individuals, and effectively circumvented the investigatory body tasked with surveillance oversight, according to documents newly obtained by Privacy International, a London-based consumer advocacy group.
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Can You Solve This UK Intelligence Agency Christmas Puzzle?
What better way to celebrate the holidays than a fiendishly difficult puzzle. Well, that’s what one of the UK’s intelligence agencies, GCHQ, reckons — which is why the Christmas card it’s been sending out features this infuriating puzzle. Can you solve it?
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British Spy HQ Goes Rainbow To Celebrate Diversity
The famous ringed doughnut of secrecy that houses the UK’s GCHQ spy overlords has gone all rainbow coloured for a short while, as the agency wired up a few interestingly coloured bulbs to highlight the fact that yesterday was the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.