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You need a specialist with Haywire protocol and a decent hack stat or a lot of luck to get this. Sectopods have a very high hack stat but you can boost your soldier to increase their chances. Try to equip your specialist with the highest level gremlin, the best PCS for hacking you can get, and a skulljack all of which will boost the hacking stat. For your other soldiers try to equip them with EMP grenades/bluescreen protocol ammo, hit the sectopod without destroying it, each successful hit will lower its hack stat. Once you think the sectopod's hack stat has been lowered a good amount use haywire protocol and try to take it over. You can go through with the use of the ability as far as seeing your chances so long as you don't hit begin hack. So you can check and if the odds don't seem favorable you can cancel and try to weaken it some more.