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Secret Intelligence Service

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Seminar Topic (I)

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Military and scientific espionage are truly eternal;

they are in fact constant companions of any large and developed state

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(C-IV) Notes taken from Seminar

The activities of foreign spies across the U.K. have intensified during recent years. One might ask; does foreign intelligence really feel at ease in our country? Does foreign intelligence  have agents in British elites – and what might they be doing in this regard?

It has been said repeatedly that the activities of all foreign spies here have intensified significantly in recent years. Is it normal that other countries are monitoring British citizens, are monitoring via the Internet, including top officials?

Surveillance on the Internet (not only on social networks) is a very fashionable topic. But, as a rule, those who are mainly concerned about this topic are mostly a waste of time and energy. The same applies to the equally famous hacking, whose role in modern espionage is very exaggerated. The real benefit from real espionage is purely applied. Bypassing the protection of the telephone company and obtaining the billing of calls and so on.

Question; to what extent is the using of people as pawns in the ‘diplomatic game’?

There is really nothing bad for an ordinary person from the fact that Google selects contextual advertising for him/her or sorts selfies by coordinates on the ground. And those who are supposed to hide their whereabouts and Internet requests may well get around this household espionage. Anyone who wants to not be found, be sure to be able to hide – at least for a while.

But what happens with the real activation of foreign intelligence special services against citizens of the United Kingdom? Already several years accusations of “spy mania” have been pouring from the liberal flank and examples of the arrests of respected people in closed areas of the scientific sphere are cited as evidence. But military and scientific espionage are truly eternal; they are constant companions of any large and developed state.

To deny the very fact of such work of foreign intelligence services on the territory of the United Kingdom and against British citizens would be, to put it mildly, short-sighted.

This problem – the presence of foreign agents among the British elite – exists and requires a solution.

The issue is not even the number of identified employees of numerous foreign special services in the U.K.. The old agent networks do not depend on the number of connected ones, they have different communication systems.

All these problems are much more serious than all the computer tricks of the global IT giants combined. It’s just that the general and general craze for computer themes and the belief in the omnipotence of the Internet attract ordinary attention. There are common truths regarding the transparency of the Internet and the absurdity of privacy.

It is ridiculous to deny the danger of espionage. In the West, any meetings with for example Russian diplomats or officials outside the framework of official events have become toxic, and

The accusation of working for the Russians can destroy any career and even life, including without presenting real evidence.

In the most covered part of espionage work – Internet technologies – every restriction or attempt to control the circulation of information causes a storm of indignation on the part of the liberal flank. But even so, one must understand that those who want to hide will hide there too.

Al-Qaeda used their time to use for example XXX chat for correspondence, exchanging encrypted phrases. And some commented on photos on specialised sites about domestic pets. If you cover one, ten new cats will come out. Here again one returns to undercover intelligence – it is the basis of the foundation.

We need to track a person, not his/her digital footprint. It can help track, but it is not the only way to combat espionage, but only an auxiliary element. In the end, the computer is just a hostile piece of iron, it does not steal secrets by itself and does not conduct subversive propaganda.

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Seminar Topic II

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