I've hypothesized that the recent blast of negative press about Facebook and other social media companies like this is driven in part by the realization at the

I've hypothesized that the recent blast of negative press about Facebook and other social media companies like this is driven in part by the realization at the heights of US intelligence that these massive surveillance honeypots are a threat to US national security. If that's the case I agree with them. How many people with secret and top secret clearance have exploitable (or compromised by design) 'smart' devices in their home or could be blackmailed using data in possession of these services? Then there's the whole mass election manipulation angle which just adds to the problem. The social and 'smart device' panopticon opens the potential for a completely remote cyber-invasion and takeover of the country by a foreign actor. It would be the first full-scale invasion with not only no shots fired but no actual physical army on the ground. I don't think this is really all that sci-fi.