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around the world, video footage of any suspicious activity, thousands of emails that had any content that the system perceived as a threat, as well as a large number of coded messages that it even decoded for us. Initially, we and the higher-ups were quite ecstatic over our success and the fact that we could see everything that could be seen on earth, we could hear everything that was being said everywhere and we could read everything that was being exchanged electronically. In short, we thought we were in a position to control the world in every possible manner. We thought we had the upper hand over the domain of cyber-warfare as well as traditional warfare. But, that was what we “thought”.