A curious piece in Wired by Brian Barrett [http://www.wired.com/2015/10/facebook-now-warns-users-of-state-sponsored-attacks/] explains how Facebook is now warning some of its users if they believe a penetration is by a state-sponsored attacker. Some of the little snippets in this piece indicate Facebook will do this kind of notification "if we have a strong suspicion that the attack is government -sponsored." One of the countermeasures they will recommend is getting a new computer, which kind of gets to the level of sophistication of some of these attacks on social media. Getting a new computer is pretty radical. Maybe they need to explain a little more about the kind of attack that can't be undone and requires a new computer.
Barrett also says Facebook has a Tor-based version for people trying to avoid surveillance. That may be wishful thinking.
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