MI5 Fires Older Spies for Inadequate IT Skills

The domestic British intelligence agency MI5 is firing older employees for not having up-to-date IT skills and replacing the jokingly called James Bond Generation of elderly spies with new intelligence officers who have better command of new technologies, according to the Daily Telegraph.

Most of MI5′s counterterrorism work focuses on Islamic extremists, many of whom use of the Internet and other computer technologies…