"I know a lot of people who are over 60 who are quite capable of using Facebook and Twitter," [the computer expert asked about the move] said. I would hope MI5

"I know a lot of people who are over 60 who are quite capable of using Facebook and Twitter," [the computer expert asked about the move] said. I would hope MI5 would have higher requirements on their cyberterrorism-fighting employees. "A six-year-old can use them, so I'm sure a 60-year-old can." That's hardly a relevant assumption. A six-year-old of today most likely grew up with computers and knows nothing of a world without them. A 60-year-old might very well have not seen the point of computers and resisted using them for their entire adult life. Just because an average 60-year-old person has the cognitive abilities to learn to use computers, doesn't mean that they want to. Granted, if they were kicking people out based on the assumption that if you're over a certain age, you can't use a computer, that would be one thing, but it seems to me that they're checking employee skillsets and then letting people who don't have the skills needed go. Isn't that basically a good thing?