Fwd: GCHQ comes out of the shadows and joins Twitter

Monday 16 May 2016

GCHQ comes out of the shadows and joins Twitter
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By Tom Whitehead, Security Editor

It spends its days on the darkest recesses of the internet but GCHQ has
emerged from the shadows to become the first UK spy agency to join the
Twitterati.

The listening post has launched a Twitter account as part of its drive
for more transparency and posted its first message =93Hello World=94 at
11.02am on Monday.

Officials admitted the intelligence agency may be joining the party
=93slightly late=94 but insisted it was a =93big step=94.

Those hoping for a blizzard of secrets being posted online will be
disappointed but the agency has promised quizzes, info on its history
and regular debates.

GCHQ has been under pressure to be more open following the furore around
the leak of its methods by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013..=
...


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