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S1E5: Human Insecurity

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The First Cyber Attack: Hijacking the Telegraph

This chapter explores how individuals secretly communicated using the telegraph network to gain advanced knowledge of market movements, resulting in immense profits. It discusses the methods they used, such as encoding communication through the delivery of various objects, and how this was the world's first cyber attack.

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