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What do they know?

What are their skills?

And what would you do in their position?

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There was this ticking time bomb aspect to it where this could,

shutdown of trustee, could shut down water, it could shut down airports,

it could cause explosions and it could do that anywhere in the world.

This is True Spies.

Episode 33.

Olympic Games.

In 2010, the discovery of a vicious computer virus announced the door one of a new era of warfare.

One that could be conducted without the firing of a single weapon,

but where capacity for destruction knew no bounds.

It was the first time we'd ever seen code that could affect change in the real world.

This is the story of a piece of code, a series of zeros and ones that would transcend the digital realm

and change the geopolitical landscape forever.

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