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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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with teams tasked with watching for threats aimed at power grids, water treatment systems, transportation networks, and communications infrastructure. If we did our jobs right, nobody ever knew. No outages. No national headlines. No television anchors standing in front of glowing maps pretending they understood what had nearly happened.

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