Here's what technology could do. Microsoft said that it they will now notify people if their accounts have been targeted or compromised by the government.
     "We're taking this additional step of specifically letting you know if we have evidence that the attacker may be 'state-sponsored' because it is likely that the attack could be more sophisticated or more sustained than attacks from cybercriminals and others," Scott Charney, a vice president at the company, said in a blog post.