"Hey guys I saw a government spyring program codenamed Clumsy Beekeeper"

Most of these kids are perfect for indoctrination into such government agencies. They like to think they are James Bond.

My reasoning is that those names sound 'hackerish', whilst typical UK military code names are usually more about power and glory: http://www.alanharding.com/Military/codenames/operations.htm...

If you look at that list, the structure is quite obvious - so a program matching two words within broadcategories gives you pronounceable and memorable names, without the risk of a human giving it something too related to the content.

Those people may get work in companies that do business with GCHQ/CESG, but I think it's unlikely they would be employed by GCHQ directly.

You use the word "misdemeanors" - that doesn't really have direct equivalent in English law. Do you mean something that is not a criminal offence? Or something that is criminal but not arrestable? Or something that is arrestable but which doesn't carry a prison sentence?

Also a very fine beer in the UK. Which one do you think GCHQ make the most use of?

I'm just not sure what this means. Monitoring SL activity, or using it to conduct sensitive operations?

What is commonly called a DoS tool

> ROLLING THUNDER Distributed DoS attack using P2P. Built by ICTR deployed by JTRIG

Increase in traffic is probably to make propaganda look more popular than it is, or to redirect peoples attention.

Fun tangent: apparently in the UK you only need £2 to make a mint! http://www.darkpolitricks.com/2013/01/who-owns-the-bank-of-e...

http://prosperityuk.com/2011/10/investigating-the-bank-of-en...

(There is plenty of weird conspiracy stuff going on in the UK government, such as the role of the Metropolitan police in the press hacking scandal, the non-investigation of Hillsborough, security matters in Northern Ireland, the the post office selloff, and anything related to Savile: http://www.harrowell.org.uk/blog/2014/07/02/tories-and-thugs... . There's no need to invent unsubstantiated ones)

Does this mean there are actual humans coming up with these things?

The people crafting these things are people too, they go about daily life the same as we do, albeit in the firm belief they're doing it for the good of the people.

[0] - http://leaksource.info/2014/02/19/anticrisis-girl-nsa-gchq-s...

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA-HL-EfUbI

They also buy from abroad (although mostly from the US and Israel, who both produce software like this at a number of shops).

http://www.gchq.gov.uk/careers/pages/index.aspx

They're currently recruiting: http://www.gchq.gov.uk/careers/Pages/Cyber-and-Technical-Ope...

> Developing creative solutions to technical problems on live operations, this is a high pressured environment. You'll need to be both flexible and focused. You'll be using a wide range of technical ability rather than deep specialist skills, but you'll need an interest and aptitude in network security and coding. You'll have plenty of opportunities to develop your skills, but a technical qualification or experience in low level software, network security, malware analysis, penetration testing or vulnerability discovery and mitigation would be useful. Most importantly you should have a willingness to learn.