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10. The iPhone: Steve Jobs made a name for himself when he famously stated that Apple has 'always been shameless about stealing great ideas' but did the tech juggernaut steal a Florida man's idea for an 'electronic reading device'? Apple found themselves in hot water in June 2016 when Thomas S Ross decided to sue Apple for $10 billion,for stealing his idea.According to Ross [not from the Friends TV Series [i do not like it] ] way back in 1992 he had filed a patent for 'Electronic Reading Device',a rectangular hand held device gadget with a screen.Included in the law suit filing are drawings of Ross' original drawings for the Electronic Reading Device and claims that iPhones are remarkably similar to his drawings. Alongside the 10 billion dollar in compensation,he also demands a royalty i.e. 1.5% of all the future Apple sales.Considering that Apple made $200 billion in revenue in 2016 that would mean an extra 2 billion dollars on top of the payout

5.Illegals Program: The 'Illegals Program' was a covert Russian plot to infiltrate U.S government circles with Russian sleeper agents in 1990s. Agents assumed stolen identities and enmeshed themselves into the 'American' life to create a legend of being western citizens.They were tasked by the Moscow center to report back to US Foreign policy,internet security and military intelligence and passed back messages hidden in digital photographs,used disappearing ink and conducted clandestine bag swaps. At least 10 people were identified as a part of the program including Anna Chapman,who was placed in NYC.Chapman was caught by an undercover FBI double agent posing to be her Russian handler in Operation Ghost Stories.She was arrested along with her conspirators in 2010 and later exchanged for 4 U.S. agents who were imprisoned in Russia.Details later emerged that the program intended to go deeper so far as to teach the U.S. born children of the agents to be spies.