00:07In the summer of 2003, the lights went out for 55 million Americans across the Northeast.
00:13Panic spread throughout New York State, injuring hundreds.
00:17Eleven people died in the dark.
00:20What was to blame?
00:21A small vulnerability inside the state's transmission control room.
00:25Raymond Kenney, a disgruntled employee, unleashed a virus and walked away.
00:30Four hours later, the system overloaded and the grid shut down.
00:35Ten years on, modern systems have advanced exponentially.
00:392011 marked the installation of America's first central operating system.
00:44CTOS is a computer software that manages entire cities,
00:47providing centralized control over subway lines, traffic lights, surveillance cameras, and electricity grids.
00:53A computer now controls a major city.
00:57But who controls the computer?
00:59The answer is private companies that have everything to gain from a CTOS.
01:04Personal data collection is the key commodity.
01:07You are no longer an individual.
01:10You are a data cluster bound to a vast global network.
01:13Last year, the average American cast a digital shadow of over 2.3 gigabytes.
01:18What does that represent?
01:19Of course, there are credit cards, medical records, and reading habits.
01:23But a CTOS includes much more.
01:26Massive data silos track and sort every moment of your digital life,
01:30revealing how you think and what you believe.
01:33That information could be turned against you,
01:36not just to sell products, but to influence your world views.
01:40CTOS directly links your personal information to the physical systems you use every day,
01:46essentially providing a direct line to your bedroom laptop.
01:49Because all data is interconnected.
01:52From Nigerian email scams to hardcore pornography,
01:55online shopping to emergency services,
01:58it's all part of the same network.
02:00Ten years ago, one man shut down the entire northeast from a central control room.
02:05Today, everything can be hacked.
02:09No one knows what part of the system will be exploited,
02:11but everyone agrees the next assault will do more than just turn out the lights.
02:26The next assault will do more than just turn out the lights.
02:30The next assault will work.
02:31The next one that we gotta watch for.
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