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> I'm just so glad that someone at GCHQ maintains their sense of humour whilst being a spook. > I don't care about anything else I suspect that's exactly the
by jMyles 11y ago
> I'm just so glad that someone at GCHQ maintains their sense of humour whilst being a spook.
> I don't care about anything else
I suspect that's exactly the intention of this sort of PR.
- NamTaf 11y agoI should have clarified, my statement was with tongue planted firmly in cheek. A sibling post described it best when they said it was flippant. It's up there with the Google wiretap post-it note smileys.
- fit2rule 11y agoYeah, this is clearly a fluff piece to associate two nice, fluffy British institutions - Harry Potter, and GCHQ - in a way that reminds people its not all about death, destruction, prejudice, using arcane methods to control people against their will, killing those not of your own race/culture, stealing their resources and covering it up so that an ignorant 'sub-class' of people can continue to live their pathetic, un-magical lives, etc. Oh wait. It actually still is all about that. Just warmer and fluffier.
- madaxe_again 11y agoThat is indeed the purpose of this PR, and PR it absolutely is, as they did not prevent the leak of the book - I for one read it as a PDF several days before it was published. This is up there with the piece they ran a few days ago about how they saved us from shitty smart meters, which were instituted and approved by another department of government (ofgem). They're playing themselves off against themselves in order to make you think of them as GCHQ as better, when the whole is still just as rotten as it ever was.