A Sales Representative of Her Majesty named Bond, James Bond
GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters ), the British secret service responsibilities include tapping, intends to sell its know-how to the private sector to fight against an enemy new and polymorphic, hackers, the hackers of the digital age that can paralyze the entire computer network. Formally, it is to help the British economic jewels – like the defense companies, telecoms, pharmaceuticals and energy and financial services – to protect the conflicts on the Net. In fact, the agency established as such in 1946 aims primarily to provide additional income in these times of fiscal austerity.
A label seller
The sheets are too serious a business for all their secrets are disclosed in the public square. For this there are the novels of John Le Carré. A fraction of the information obtained by sophisticated equipment and treated by linguists, computer scientists and mathematicians will be offered to companies house. Nothing has filtered through rates or options offered to customers.
One thing is clear, the label is GCHQ seller. Its predecessor, the School of encryption and decryption born in 1919 and settled in the manor of Bletchley Park , had played a key role in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1940-1941. By deciphering Enigma machine encryption of information German, Alan Turing had entered the legend. In 1954, the inventor of the computer and the pioneer of artificial intelligence, persecuted for his homosexuality, had committed suicide. Traditionally, the GCHQ works closely with the “American cousins”. The British plan also draws from In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm linked to the CIA invests in start-up sector of information technology.
In the 1970s, much to the despair of the balance of payments of the United Kingdom, the “big ears” of the Crown had failed to take advantage of one of their most sensational discovery: a security system for to protect financial transactions online. One can easily imagine the windfall would have brought this patent to the Treasury from across the Channel in the explosion, a decade later, the stock market!
Under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GCHQ, whose budget is secret, is placed under the authority of the National Security Council. This organization of the shadow coordinates the various intelligence agencies of the kingdom and interfaces with the 10 Downing Street . And to the surprise of Buckinghamologues, its director, William Nye , has just be named chief of staff of Prince Charles.
It is a fact, even transformed into VRP, the timeless “007″ remains in vogue.
