GCHQ recruiting over xbox live

Noticed the video-ad campaign myself while playing 1 vs 100 this evening. They must be desperate - gamers = couch potatoes.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=227872

[Maggy J]

And today's weapons of huge destruction often require those with good PC skills as they are remotely guided to target.

[SB_07]

America even has their own video games to recruit people.

Originally Posted by Maggy J

And today's weapons of huge destruction often require those with good PC skills as they are remotely guided to target.

Thank god for the ECDL and NVQ qualifications

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Originally Posted by SB_07

America even has their own video games to recruit people.

The Simpson's and The Sims by any chance?

Pulling your legs, its a serious issue though.

[Charlie_Bubble]

Erm, surprised nobody has queried the subject of this thread. GCHQ are hardly soldiers. They sit in a big building in Gloucestershire and listen to foreign TV and radio and interpret it. It's hardly kicking in doors in Basra.

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

They sit in a big building in Gloucestershire and listen to foreign TV and radio and interpret it.

Or sit in a big building and read all your E-Mails and listen to all your phone calls depending how paranoid you are.

[Flyboy]

Sounds a bit like Stargate:Universe to me.

[Charlie_Bubble]

If you've seen the movie Get Smart, the work the main character was doing in the first part of the film, where he's a deskbound nerd is the kind of work they do, it's nothing like being a soldier. The only similarity is they work for the government.

[Hugh]

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Erm, surprised nobody has queried the subject of this thread. GCHQ are hardly soldiers. They sit in a big building in Gloucestershire and listen to foreign TV and radio and interpret it. It's hardly kicking in doors in Basra.

erm, people from GCHQ (and from JSSU) often go to "trouble spots" to do their work, as it's sometimes better to be closer to the source of the signals (sometimes, Troodos is just too far away).

Originally Posted by Derek S

Or sit in a big building and read all your E-Mails and listen to all your phone calls depending how paranoid you are.

I think you will find they have pattern recognition programs for that (that's if they did that sort of thing, obviously, *cough* *cough*)

[v0id]

1 vs. 100? I'd have thought they would be all over at Modern Warfare 2 recruiting

Originally Posted by v0id

1 vs. 100? I'd have thought they would be all over at Modern Warfare 2 recruiting

I wonder what other type of recruiting could be done within games?

GTA could recruit for the oldest 'profession' in the world or how about The Magic Circle placing job ads in the latest Harry Potter game of the film.

The possibilities are endless.

[Matt D]

More stories to add to the original one:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009...x-gchq-adverts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-recruits.html


Having had no Xbox recently, due to the RROD, the first time I saw any of these adverts was tonight, when I set up my newly repaired 360.

Very strange... there's even a GCHQ theme & a GCHQ gamerpic.

[Hugh]

How the world has changed - in the 70s and early 80s, we weren't even allowed to mention that we worked there, or what we did.

[Damien]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

How the world has changed - in the 70s and early 80s, we weren't even allowed to mention that we worked there, or what we did.

Now am I interested in what you did

[Derek]

Originally Posted by Damien

Now am I interested in what you did

Made the tea and did the cleaning and that all, honest guv.

And any more snooping and you'll start seeing transits with blacked out windows parked outside the house and hear clicks on the phonelines.