(OT) Happy spying without the spies

8 February 2007

Happy spying without the spies
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By Patrick Jackson
BBC News

Kids visiting the spying exhibition at London's Science Museum could come 
away just that little bit more savvy about the world of surveillance 
around them.

Saliva on a drink can, teeth-marks in an apple - these will be a few of 
your favourite things when you are a spy sifting rubbish bins for identity 
clues.

The Science of Spying, an interactive exhibition aimed at children aged 
8-12 but with plenty of stuff for adults too, makes clear the job can be a 
grubby one.

"This is not about glamorising spies," says Sara Milne, chief executive 
officer of The Science Of, which put the exhibition together for the 
museum.

"What we're saying is that spying used to be the preserve of the security 
services but now actually everybody is spying on everybody."

With so much espionage going on, the BBC News website decided to recruit 
an agent of its own, and who better to take to the exhibition than a 
former British Military Intelligence officer ?

Between you, me and that spy rock in the glass case, Adrian Weale 
technically perished within minutes of entering the spy skills area, 
having slipped up on the dynamite-extraction test.

But we brought him back to interactive life and he went on to demonstrate 
mastery of logic on the code-breakers and nerves of steel in the face of 
the eerily flickering supercomputer - and even the fiendish wire loop 
game...../snip/

...Science of Spying runs in London from 10 February until September 2007 
and will then tour abroad. A twin exhibition opens in Indianapolis in 
March 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6339751.stm