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icture the scene. The ship has run aground in shallow water. It shouldn’t have been anywhere near the sandbank it’s resting on, but the crew were unable to control it. It’s now listing badly and valuable cargo is falling overboard. The mystified captain is muttering something. The camera zooms in on him and we listen. “We must have been hacked,” he’s saying. “We must have been hacked.” If this were the opening scene of the next James Bond film, most of us would think it a perfectly credible incident – and we’d be right, because it is.
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