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The Man Who Bought the Internet
"So who is Stratton Sclavos, and why do so many Netheads think he's the archfiend? The answer is that Sclavos and his company, Verisign, increasingly run the Internet. Think we're exaggerating? Consider this: Virtually every time you surf the Net, you run into one of his servers. Has your Website failed or been hacked recently? There's a good chance his company knew about the problem before you did. Do you have a domain name? He probably sold it to you. Bought anything online lately? He owns the business of making sure that no one steals your credit card number. And once you made your purchase, his company was probably responsible for aggregating that payment with other transactions and funneling them to the right banks and payment processors.
It's all part of Sclavos' master plan to build what he calls cyberspace's "first utility"--a company that handles all the boring but complicated and necessary details of life in the Internet Age."
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