- Insurance Dark Web Portal launched by MI6 offers a new contact route for potential informants
- The agency expects Silent Couer to attract Russian sources and others with secrets
- MI6 provides Tor and VPN orientation to help informants protect their identities
The British intelligence agency MI6 has launched a new dark web portal designed to help you make safe contact with possible informants in Russia and worldwide.
The new Silent Couer platform is designed to allow people with confidential information to send messages to the agency without exposing their identity.
The boss of outgoing MI6 Richard Moore is expected to confirm the launch during a speech in Istanbul. “Today we are asking those with confidential information about global instability, international terrorism or hostile state intelligence activity that communicate with MI6 safely online,” Moore will say, according to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Our virtual door is open for you.”
Carefully reviewed
The Spy agency has published a multilingual guide explaining how to use the system on its official YouTube channel, which can be seen below.
The steps, if you want to follow them, include downloading the Tor browser, run a reliable VPN and use a device not linked to your personal identity.
If this were at the end of the 1990s or early 2000s, and a film, that would probably imply establishing a camp in a cybercafé.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Yvette Cooper, said that the new approach is part of the efforts to keep the United Kingdom one in front of the adversaries, pointing out: “Our world -class intelligence agencies are on the coal face of this challenge, working behind the scene to keep the British people safe.”
The measure echoes a strategy adopted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, which has also tried to attract Russian online agents after a harmful rape in China that exposed its networks.
Silent Couer represents the first time that Mi6 offers a platform dedicated to the dark website.
The agency emphasized that all the information sent through the system will be carefully reviewed.
Moore, who has been Chief of Mi6 for five years, must give up soon, and will be replaced by Blaise Metreweli, who will become the first woman to direct the service.
For a service often associated with James Bond, the launch shows the way in which the modern espionage of the real world is increasingly molded by technology instead of Martinis and Aston Martins.
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