Xbox Live users could soon be trading in the covert ops of Modern Warfare 2 for real life intelligence gathering. Government agency GCHQ, which works with MI5 and MI6, is running a six-week recruitment ad campaign on Microsoft’s online service.
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A new cyber-security operations unit, based at spy central GCHQ, is to be created, the government has announced. The unit will be backed by a policy co-ordination office in Whitehall. And was announced as part of an “updated national security strategy”. Like something out of Spooks: Code 9, Lord Alan West, Home Office security minister, said the unit was looking to recruit young hackers with questionable pasts.