UK communications spooks seek hipster cyber skills

New recruitment method: Pedestrians walking past a spray painted job advert for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) on the pavement in Shoreditch, east London. GCHQ is trying to broaden its employee and skills base against a background of government warnings of increased cyber crime.

LONDON: Britain’s communications intelligence agency said it had spray-painted job adverts on London streets popular with hipsters to woo more employees with cyber skills. 

East London’s gritty but funky Shoreditch area is more known for its bearded and tattooed denizens than the posh, well-dressed agents associated with British intelligence, but officials say they are trying to break the mould.