Monday, March 29, 2010

Do "Old Spies" Know How To Use The Internet?

Bond, James Bond

Ageing Spies Unable To Use The Internet -- The Telegraph

Having battled Islamic extremists, Irish Republican terrorists and Russian spies, some of the veteran intelligence officers of MI5 are encountering a foe they cannot master: information technology.

The Security Service is launching an unprecedented round of redundancies to improve the overall level of computer skills among its staff.

Despite an expanding budget, MI5 is laying off employees in order to hire new intelligence officers and support staff with better command of information technology and other “deployable” skills.

Read more ....

My Comment:
I wonder if the other intelligence services also have this problem. Do the old spies in the CIA, today's KGB equivalent in Russia, China, etc .... are they also IT illiterate?

Hmmmm .... my guess is yes .... and maybe worse (at least in Russia).

No comments:

Post a Comment