I was quite amused to hear this morning that the new head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) had his personal and family details plastered all over Facebook by his wife. This sort of thing would never have happened in the old days. Readers of the spy novels of John Le Carre cannot imagine that his spymaster, George Smiley would have his details on a Facebook page partly because he was outwardly too boring and partly because his wife was usually too busy jumping into bed with all and sundry to have bothered with social networking sites had they existed in those days.
Perhaps though, in these days. we dont need the likes of George Smiley to go through all the convoluted businesss of espionage as it wasa carried on in the days of the Cold War. Given that everyone, including the bad guys and girls seem to have Facebook pages all we need is a few spotty teenage nerds with the time, inclination and financial incentive, to trawl through Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and the like in search of homely pictures of Osama Bin Laden or perhaps following him on Twitter as he tells us how he dodged the latest US air raids.
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