Snowden: NSA responsible for 2012 Syrian internet blackout through knocking a single router offline - Polidicks

[url]http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/13/5998237/nsa-responsible-for-2012-syrian-internet-outage-snowden-says[/url] [quote=The Verge]When Syria's access to the internet was cut for two days back in 2012, it apparently wasn't the fault of dissenting "terrorists," as the Syrian government claimed: according to Wired, it was the fault of the US government. In a long profile of Edward Snowden published today, Wired writes what Snowden says is the truth about the internet outage. An elite hacking unit in the National Security Agency had reportedly been attempting to install malware on a central router within Syria — a feat that would have allowed the agency to access a good amount of the country's internet traffic. Instead, it ended up accidentally rendered the router unusable, causing Syria's internet connection to go dark.[/quote]

Well thats. . . something.

Make that an almost elite hacking unit.

I wonder what the Syrians will have to say about this. Perhaps something about America sticking its long nose into every nation's affairs where it isn't needed.

For the best that it didn't work, if it did imagine to who else they could have done this too, all the same I think a good purging of some systems should be in order.

Uhh boss I just broke the internet in Syria Dammit Tony! One more fuck up from you and I'm cancelling the friday night pool game.

[I]Shit! Unplug it and plug it back in![/I]

Unstable countries are a breeding ground for terrorists, so it sort of makes sense they wanted to listen in on stuff.

[QUOTE=Glitchman;45680402]Unstable countries are a breeding ground for terrorists, so it sort of makes sense they wanted to listen in on stuff.[/QUOTE] By that logic they should just indiscriminately bomb areas where they suspect Terrorists to be in hopes of killing a few, and come on what kind of fucked up nation would do that

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;45680561]By that logic they should just indiscriminately bomb areas where they suspect Terrorists to be in hopes of killing a few, and come on what kind of fucked up nation would do that[/QUOTE] Yes, if you're gathering intelligence on the internal state of a country going through a civil war, you might as well just start randomly slaughtering people.

What I find funny most about this is how there's only one router responsible for the Internet of an entire nation.

god damn hackers on steroids

"You did copy the running-config to the startup-config before rebooting that Syria router, right Jeff?" "Fuck"

Electronic Warfare fucking terrifies me for this kind of thing alone. You can knock out the internet for everyone in one hit, and all it takes is some dedicated hackers.

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;45680561]By that logic they should just indiscriminately bomb areas where they suspect Terrorists to be in hopes of killing a few, and come on what kind of fucked up nation would do that[/QUOTE] Israel.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;45680739]Yes, if you're gathering intelligence on the internal state of a country going through a civil war, you might as well just start randomly slaughtering people.[/QUOTE] No but if your gathering Knowledge on people in a state with the automatic assumption there terrorists you might as well start killing them as you clearly aren't impartial and to be fair it would save allot of time.

[QUOTE=KillerJaguar;45681500]What I find funny most about this is how there's only one router responsible for the Internet of an entire nation.[/QUOTE] All I can think of is the South Park episode related to that. [B]THE GREAT ROUTER![/B]