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The exhibition offers children and adults the chance to try out for themselves some of the activities that make up modern day spying. Visitors get to role-play as a trainee spy, using the latest technologies and going on a 'secret undercover mission'. They also get to experience what it is like to be spied upon and are offered a glimpse of the future of surveillance technology.

The exhibition manages to address a number of serious issues surrounding the use of surveillance. Visitors will be invited to think about some of the dilemmas facing a modern-day spy. The Science of Spying launches at the Science Museum on 10 February 2007.

For more information, see www.scienceofspying.com.

Any parents or teachers who do take their children to this exhibition should explain that in addition to

Experience some of the latest surveillance technology and find out what it is like to be spied on yourself as you search for a secret code. Submit to the brain-scan lie detector or the latest in body-scanning technology.

Body scanning technology used on children ? Are these "see through your clothes" child porn machines ?

Look for clues by tapping into conversations and surveillance cameras.

they will also have come under surveillance on the journey into Central London via CCTV, ANPR and Oyster Card etc. transport surveillance,
and possibly, credit card financial transaction surveillance as well, since the entrance dee is £8 per adult.

We are somewhat curious as to what exactly a "biometric door hanger" might consist of as part of the £25 spy kit merchandise at the Science Museum shop

We hope that the Science Museum can be persuaded to stock some of the cross party NO2ID Campaign literature and merchandise, to give a counterbalancing view for the educational study aspects of this exhibition, which runs until September.

However, for the budding intelligence agents amongst you, perhaps you should carefully examine the MI5 website page announcing this news

http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/Page584.html

and see if you can discover the "secret" photos of Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, the outgoing Director General of MI5 the Security Service, who formally opened the exhibition yesterday.

See if you can tell when the photos were probably taken, when they were edited, and what sort of camera is likely to have been used.

Here is our guess at these "secrets"

This was a public event with press photographers, but it does illustrate some of the potential pitfalls with respect to anonymity of sources on the world wide web, especially if you an investigative journalist, blogger or even an intelligence agency, trying to protect the anonymity of their whistleblower or covert human informant or technical intelligence assets.

See Spy Blog's hints and tips for whistleblowers.