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“If you’re not paying for a product, you are the product.
“The criminals force society to improve. They weed out the weak, making us strengthen our institutions and networks.”
“Did you know that it was light that made Rockefeller into a titan?”
“Oil was the currency, but light was the product. It was America’s desire for light that drove Rockefeller into, well, the
“Cars. Did you know that the first cars were electric? In 1910 there were more electric-powered cars on the streets of New York than gas-powered ones, and everyone back then assumed that electric cars were the future—they made a lot more sense than the crazy engines that ran on controlled explosions of volatile, toxic chemicals. But Rockefeller funded Ford to make sure that gas-powered cars, not electric, would be the way of the future, so he would have a place to sell his oil.”
“If you don’t pay for a product, then you are the product.”
the Ashiyane group had claimed that they’d released the Scramble virus to attack North American logistics systems in retaliation for the Stuxnet and Flame cyberweapons the United States had unleashed against Iran a few years earlier.
