Security News > 2010 > March > Ageing spies unable to use the internet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7532996/Ageing-spies-unable-to-use-the-internet.html Telegraph.co.uk 28 March 2010 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. The redundancy programme has set tongues wagging in Whitehall, with civil servants in other departments joking about a "James Bond generation" of elderly spies being put out to pasture because they can't use the internet and don't understand the world of Twitter or Facebook. The plan was disclosed by Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5. He told a Parliamentary committee that he is concerned that his agency's overall IT skills are not up to scratch, leading him to get rid of some employees. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/