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as the head of m15 was saying, they were able to stop and thwart 31 odd planned attacks at a later stage. but when they are spontaneous, they are incredibly difficult to stop. how much better equipped are the intelligence agencies now, then? bearing in mind that the nature of terrorism can change, can transform itself very quickly. sometimes you are dealing with large networks, sometimes you are dealing with people who are acting alone. yes, exactly. and as we have seen, particularly with the islamic state, you know, they, as al-qaeda before, looked at incentivising individuals or lone wolves to carry out these attacks. but we have to contextually look at the advancements in technology since 9/11, and when one imagines that, or certainly takes into consideration that iphones only came out in, i believe, 2007, now we look at the sort of smartphone devices that we have in our pockets right now, technology has advanced on many, many different platforms, which can then be advantaged not ....