bomb > {?} < book

bomb > {?} < book
– Slim Pickens, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1964

There is a middle term between bomb, gun & book:

its excuse is public safety, it is for private profit—and soon everything is going to have something that does it,

that harvests your data (and turns it into cash), whether you like it or not. And that thing is going to be called