Facebook spent roughly $20 million last year to protect Mark Zuckerberg and his family. Adding to Silicon Valley angst: so-called swatting attacks.
One January night this year an emergency dispatch operator in Palo Alto, Calif.
, fielded a call from a man who said he had shot his wife and then tied up his children inside his house, where he had several pipe bombs. After a tense period in which police officers surrounded the house, out came the owner, a senior Facebook Inc. executive who said there was no shooting and that he had no idea what was going on.
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