Friday, April 27, 2018

GCHQ is a bit like a trendy tech startup, according to its former director


Not much is known about the inner workings of GCHQ — the Government Communications Headquarters, which is Britain’s version of America’s NSA spy agency. Due to the sensitive nature of its ‘business,’ it has deliberately shrouded its work under an inpenetrable cloak of secrecy. An opportunity to meet the organization’s former director, Robert Hannigan — at the IP Expo Manchester security conference — afforded me the chance to lift that shroud a little, and ask about GCHQ’s internal culture. Hannigan ran GCHQ between 2014 and 2017, and according to him, daily life there isn’t too far removed from many tech…

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