NSA Triggered Syrian Internet Outage By Accident

Opps. The US National Security Agency (NSA) accidently shut down the entire internet in Syria in 2012, according to a new interview with Edward Snowden published in Wired Magazine. If NSA was caught, blame was to be transferred on Israel At the time of the outing, technical difficulties in Turkey were blamed, but inside the NSA a joke circulated that the backup plan to blame Israel if they were caught. The breach of Syrian internet infrastructure was in fact the handiwork of the NSA’s Tailored Access Office (TAO), Snowden said in the interview.  On a secret operation to plant spy apparatus…