The United Kingdom has a new way for people to share secrets with the country's foreign intelligence agency.

It's called Silent Courier, and it's being advertised online.

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The service can be found on the dark web, and allows potential spies to share classified information with the U.K.'s Secret Intelligence Service — better known as MI6 — securely. The nation's Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, says the portal is being launched as the U.K. tries to recruit "potential new agents in Russia and around the world."

That makes sense to former MI6 intelligence officer Matthew Dunn. He told NPR that Silent Courier could be used by foreign officials who otherwise couldn't meet with an MI6 handler, or sneak into a British embassy.

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