TheVerge - 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.
Online advertisements have become so dangerous that even the U.S. Intelligence Community blocks them.
Privacy kinks, corporate malfeasance and tech bros -- the first years of the decade faced no shortage of outrages and flops.
From documents obtained by the ACLU, it turns out that the NSA illegally collected call records after it promised to stop collecting them.
