{"id":55825,"date":"2016-09-29T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_spies_move_to_master_digital_intelligence\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:00:05","slug":"ft_spies_move_to_master_digital_intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55825","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Spies move to master digital intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the closed doors of British intelligence, the era of Smiley\u2019s People is giving way to a future of Smiley\u2019s Facebook friends.<\/p>\n<p>Digital disruption is sweeping through the world\u2019s second-oldest profession \u201d\u201d spying \u201d\u201d and the UK is repurposing its intelligence services with a \u00c2\u00a31.5bn annual top-up for security available for the first time this year.<\/p>\n<p>For the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, which supplies foreign intelligence, this translates into its biggest ever recruitment drive, with as many as 1,000 new staff over the next four years, a 40 per cent rise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/b239dc22-855c-11e6-a29c-6e7d9515ad15.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fhome_us%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz4LY6zOPM3\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the closed doors of British intelligence, the era of Smiley\u2019s People is giving way to a future of Smiley\u2019s Facebook friends. Digital disruption is sweeping through the world\u2019s second-oldest profession \u201d\u201d spying \u201d\u201d and the UK is repurposing its<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55825\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,143,199,119,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-england-uk","category-globalization","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}