The platoon was sent to reconnoitre the village before the attack .
在发动进攻前，这个排奉命侦察该村。
But states can combine the criminal hacker 's tricks , such as spear-phishing , with the intelligence apparatus to reconnoitre a target , the computing power to break codes and passwords , and the patience to probe a system until it finds a weakness-usually a fallible human being .
