Instagram, the youngest-ever director of the intelligence agency said that it would be “dangerous vanity” for MI5 to assume that all the resources it needed to counter 21st-Century threats could be found “inside its own bubble”.While he acknowledged that some things would always need to be kept secret in order to preserve a “vital edge” against evildoers, a more open posture for the agency would help it liaise with academics, companies, and ordinary citizens to identify and neutralise emerging threats.He added that MI5 needed to diversify to match an ever more diverse set of dangers: "We must get past whatever Martini-drinking stereotypes may be lingering,” he wrote in the Daily Telegraph, “by conveying a bit more of what today’s MI5 is.
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