Let kids play video games to "save the country", UK spy chief says

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We're used to civil servants warning parents that playing video games rots their kids' brains. We're not used to them encouraging parents to let them get on with it because it might just save the country.
That's exactly what Robert Hannigan, the former boss of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), said in a column published in The Daily Telegraph (paywall). He said Britain lacks sufficient cyber skills. What do do? Let kids play video games.
The UK is in desperate need of computer scientists and engineers, Hannigan, who warned against parents clamping down too hard on their kids' online time.
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