British spy agency GCHQ is advertising on trendy Shoreditch streets

UK spy agency GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA, has taken the unusual step of covering trendy London neighbourhood Shoreditch with ads for jobs at the intelligence agency.

The "clean" graffiti ads, which are created using a pressure washer and a stencil, direct applicants to apply for "technical opportunities" at the agency.

The ads have been appearing around Shoreditch, which is home to lots of different technology startups, and so could be a good place for GCHQ to hire technical talent.

GCHQ confirmed to Business Insider that the ads were real.

But there's something weird about the ads: The website doesn't work. Clicking the gchq-careers.co.uk link takes you to a page with an error message:

GCHQ told Business Insider that it was looking into fixing the URL issue, and it could be connected to web browsers that automatically use a secure HTTPS version of a web page.

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