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Cameron Colquhoun is the founder of Neon Century, an intelligence consultancy serving hedge funds, law firms, and private clients globally. He previously served as an officer in British intelligence.
He is a Fulbright Cyber Security Award winner and a former researcher at RAND Corporation. He writes and speaks frequently on intelligence, technology, and commercial risk.
He writes Signals, a weekly newsletter covering geopolitics, technology and business.
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The real-life Q revealed: Do women really make better spies?
Manchester Bomber Met With ISIS Unit in Libya, Officials Say
The dark web: How big, how dark and what's there?
Here's Where Many British Spies End Up When They Quit
Spies — Documentary Series
How 'doxing' can destroy your reputation and bring company stocks to their knees
Spies, Data, MI6, CIA — Gordon Corera on Intelligence
Cameron Colquhoun: Ethical Intelligence
Ghosts in the Machine
WIRED Security Event
AI, Terrorists & the Global Threat of Content Creation
Five Eyes at 70: Where to from Here?
A Brief History of Open Source Intelligence
The Islamic State's New Sinai Offshoot — Were There Signs the Metrojet Attack Was Coming?
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