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Facebook Notifies Users of Potential Nation-State Attacks (facebook.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook has announced its plans to notify users if they are under threat from state-sponsored cyberattacks. The social media giant proposes a notification system triggered when its algorithms suspect nation-state activity. The alert will pop up on the user's Facebook page, warning them of the danger and advising them to switch on login approvals, which require the individual to enter a security code sent to them from Facebook.
A service that sells personal info of narcissists is willing to tell them they are important in exchange for their cell phone number?
Color me shocked!
I consider someone spying on me/my accounts without a warrant to be a targeted attack.
So does this notification include activity by Facebook and the good ol' U.S. of A? NSA?
Political correctness is really just herd psychology pushed by insecure people who desperately seek social conformity.
It doesn't.
If you are willing to put all of your life on facebook, you shouldn't expect any privacy.
this seems like a great way to shape a billion users opinions on who the bad-guy is; I suspect it will regularly tell people the Chinese are attacking, and consistently ignore mentioning what the NSA are doing. Facebook is turning into a U.S propaganda machine.
Sorry, but Facebook is an entity who I fully believe will lie to you if it means they can get more information about you.
ZOMG, teh nation states are the hax0rs, give us your cell phone number, three additional email accounts and their passwords, your credit card number, and the names of your parents.
I believe this will be purely FUD and other bullshit, which will somehow benefit Facebook.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Facebook IS a state-sponsored cyberattack
Naw man, it means the grass is good, moo
Oh no, Putin's after Fluffy the Kitten again!
Table-ized A.I.
Because you're the target of a state-sponsored advanced persistent threat every day of your lives.
So they will send a message to all users warning them about the NSA and GCHQ - what would be the point in that?
I was gonna suggest that you should just change your password to "governments_and_law_enforcement_are_not_permitted_to_snoop_on_this_account". Turns out that it works like a charm, since it's well known that cops and government agents have to tell you they're a cop if you ask, "You a cop?" and that they aren't allowed to access data that you post publicly if it says it's off-limits to them.
There's already an alert system to signal you that FaceBook is invading your privacy....
Whenever you see the iconic FaceBook logo on a page, heads up.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
With of course the usual back doors and exceptions for the NSA.
Is there a service out there that will notify you when you're under imminent threat of Facebook attacking your privacy? Trick question, Facebook is always attacking your privacy!
i am glad that works for you.
Aren't we all under constant threat from nation states? That's what nation states *do*. Don't think so? Refuse to pay your property taxes and refuse to leave your property, and see how long it takes the men with guns to show up.
Give it the duck test: if it walks like fascism; if it quacks like fascism; and if it acts like fascism; then it must be fascism!
This is exactly what we'll need if the Conservatives are voted in again.
Code that was embedded in a cute kitten video is crawling through Facebook collecting all kinds of data on you. (Am I starting to sound paranoid?)
Considering that Facebook is one of the FBI's greatest ally, it should warn you of "Nation State activity" each time you log in, since the entire database can be queried remotely by the Nation State. Furthermore, given that NSA Letters can gag Facebook, we can demonstrate that their pop-up about being targeted by Nation States is defective by design.
That is absolute bullshit. They can and will lie to you if asked that question.
There have been so many FB privacy hoaxes mega-shared like "FB will reset your preferences so all your personal data is shared with third party marketers" that I stopped taking any of them seriously. Too many "cry wolf" syndromes. I have very little private info on my FB page - I refuse to divulge my employer, home address, high school, college, birth date, etc. My occupation is even listed as "professional crash test dummy". I refuse to put anything on there of value to marketers, and it would be useless to a nation-state attack.
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
They can and will lie to you if asked that question.
Exactly. It appears that my comment is coming dangerously close to being an example of Poe's Law, minus the extremism.
But yes, as you said, it's BS. That was the reason I mentioned it in my comment, in fact. Moreover, this is Facebook we're talking about, so it's safe to assume that they're salting and hashing their user's passwords, meaning that my suggestion to set your password to a message intended for reading is even more nonsensical.
I incidentally noticed today that DuckDuckGo has a warning message about tracking when linking to youtube via a search result. I have no idea if this is something new, or if it's been like that for a while.
So do it right and add a canary. Every day the status page says we are not under cyber attack. The message disappears when a cyber attack is detected.
Or post your recommended duress canary method below
Every six months this companies entire database of insanely personal supposed private information is leaked? Yea- if there was any truth to this facebook would simply warn *every* user that at least one state had already compromised everything.
Will these 'state-sponsored cyberattacks' run on Apple OS X or Linux?
LOL the Foreignians are attacking! Get out the Nyan Cat memes and snap a selfie with the hacker! IANAL but I think that attacking me is just... so... bummer!
Like, you know, right?
But will Facebook notify Americans targeted by NSL?
good links. The tribe is behind it all. They do the act on all sides.
Mark wanted Xi Jinping to name his child. Will Facebook tell you if more important countries are spying on you?
Now I know you're a troll. I looked up Poe's Law and it has nothing to do with the Police being required to tell you who they are. I think that was like in the Declaration of Independence or something.
Articles of Confederation, I believe, but they still have authority in the South over the Constitution since they came first! Oh, and Texas retained its right to secede when it joined the US. Don't let them tell you otherwise.