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MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website
The British Intelligence agency has unveiled its latest weapon in the war on terror, cupcake recipes published by the Ellen DeGeneres show. MI6 hacked an online al-Queda magazine replacing instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom" with a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” from Ellen's show. From the article: "It included a recipe for the Mojito Cupcake – 'made of white rum cake and draped in vanilla buttercream'- and the Rocky Road Cupcake – 'warning: sugar rush ahead!' By contrast, the original magazine featured a recipe showing how to make a lethal pipe bomb using sugar, match heads and a miniature lightbulb, attached to a timer."
*puts on sunglasses* ... those cupcakes were dynamite.
Dear Al Qaeda reader,
Have a cake on us.
Yours,
MI6
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The replacement instructions are obviously bogus and will be ignored. What would be smarter would be to subtly modify the bomb recipes so that they simply won't work, or will blow up in the terrorist's face.
Its the extra kick in the balls when they put up an alcoholic recipe knowing fully well that its against Islam
Someone post the recipe already, sounds delicious.
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It seems to me that MI6 has shown considerable insensitivity to the Muslim readers of this magazine by including alcoholic cupcakes among the recipes.
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Who said those limey British bastards at MI6 don’t have a sense of humor?
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Now they will be putting pipe bombs in cupcakes.
Why is it that most of the people that I encounter seem to have been shat from the Sphincter of Mediocrity?
Did MI-6 properly license the copyright to the recipe from WarnerBros (the producers of the Ellen Degeneres Show).
Will WarnerBros pursue MI-6, who will disavow all knowledge? or perhaps the alQueda site for re-publishing the recipe without permission?
how to make a lethal pipe bomb using sugar, match heads and a miniature lightbulb,
It might be more lethal if it contained an oxidizer.
Just sayin'
Did anyone else read the headline and think that MI6 had given Al Qaeda bomb plans in return for a cupcake recipe?
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
I thought British cooking was banned by the Geneva Convention. WTH? Is the UK a terrorist state now?
it's da bomb
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
So it sounds like this was an attempt at inserting recipes, and the result was actually raw HTML. Still accomplishes the DELETE PIPE BOMBS mission, but probably didn't get much more than an eyebrow-raise from the readership...
They swapped the recipies? I sure hope they copied the cupcake recipe to the Al Qaeda website and left the recipe on Ellen's website unchanged!
The cupcake is a fib.
And because of that I'm surprised they didn't just swap out the recipe and leave the title the same. At least that would have been a bit harder to detect and may have been even funnier
"Our bombs smell like cupcakes".
It should have been a doughnut post. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Doughnut_Day> National Doughnut Day
Up Next: "Suspicious package found in airport discovered to be cupcakes connected to detonator"
The best bombs are made with love.
...he creamed himself in front of an embassy?
How very embassaring... er, embarrassing.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Or better yet... bacon-wrapped alcoholic cupcakes. With nuts...
We've previously discussed how using British food is prohibited by the Geneva convention.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
sugar, eggs and peanutbutter does not turn into a cookie when you bake it. It turns into FIRE.
Wasn't there a kerfluffle where some magazine ripped off recipes from somebody's website and then barefacedly tried to tell the blogger they owned the recipes ? I can't find the story right now, my google-fu must be waning.
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Put up recipes for bacon-wrapped scallops and for bacon cheese burgers. I just can't see how they could stay Muslim.
Al-Qaeda: What happen?
Mechanic: Someone set us cup the cake.
Operator: We get sprinkles.
Al-Qaeda: What!
Operator: Microwave turn on.
Al-Qaeda: It's you!!
MI6: How are you gentlemen!!
MI6: All your bomb are belong to us.
How long until there's a DMCA take-down notice for posting recipes from Ellen's show? Who gets the notice, MI6 or al-Qaeda?
... was a lie?
In which case they are also rolling back the security flaw.
I suspect the major goal was to send the message "you're not as secure as you think you are" and inject some paranoia (and with it, operational slowdown).
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
Note what the blurb says: ... recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America”. Since it was MI6 guys doing the cracking, this says a lot.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Did anyone else read the headline and think that MI6 had given Al Qaeda bomb plans in return for a cupcake recipe?
That's exactly what happened. Only thing is, the explosive will not blow up and the cupcake recipe contains a powerful laxative.
We are here at an online al-Queda magazine webserver, where we've secretly replaced the bomb recipes they usually serve with Folgers Crystals. Let's see if anyone can tell the difference!
Do you seriously think they exploited the webserver to replace text, but didn't bother copying all the system logs and installing a backdoor and rootkit? You're right, they did it for the lulz. It's too bad that MI-6 only has access to documented, patched vulnerabilities and this website will be back to impenetrable by foreign intelligence services status in no time.
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You might be up to something. I just heard that al-Qaeda had amazing benefits. Mi-6 might just trying to copy their benefits package
"More proof of its corporate structure: As odd as it sounds, al-Qaida had excellent HR benefits. The seized documents showed that al-Qaida paid an unusual amount of attention to its fighters and their families. Married members were allowed to have seven days of vacation for every three weeks worked. " ( npr)
...an advertisement for GitHub alongside this article.
("How to make a bomb" [fork me on GitHub!])
Yes, cyberwarfare is an important part of tackling problems with terrorism, however I'm not really sure if replacing content wholesale like this is actually that useful of an idea.
Wouldn't it be more effective to just tweak the bomb recipe so that it would subtly fail? If you replace a bomb recipe with one for cupcakes, no committed suicide bomber is going to stay and whip up some buttercream frosting instead of an IED. It's a dick move, but one might even be tempted to tweak a bomb recipe so that people trying to follow the steps would cause themselves harm, instead of making a working device.
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I wonder if they made a more subtle alteration months ago. This defacement could scare them into spreading the (broken) bomb recipe as far and wide as possible.
Even MI6 doesn't give a rats ass about copyright infringement . I think it would be hilarious if they were sued.
You can't copyright recipes.*
* At least not in the US, probably not many other places.
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*sigh* One in every crowd. You caught me, Grissom.
No, I do not "seriously think" blah blah blah. The text-replacement was a parting shot by the penetration team. The major goal of REPLACING THE TEXT was as a deterrent and to introduce paranoia. I thought the rest was taken-as-read and that I didn't have to stoop to parentheticals and subjunctive clauses, but... Slashdot, y'know? Next time I'll use small words.
Everybody gets what the majority deserves.
I remember seeing another article nearly a full year ago about this, but it was much more informational and less sensational. Now, it seems that this was all an operation by the good ole US. Imagine that.
I'm more inclined to believe that the entire thing, including the original magazine, was a psyops project. Looking at it the way the Public Intelligence does is far less non-nonsensical than wasted efforts altering a file that is likely to have an offline original copy somewhere when you could just... sabotage the server and take off the head. I'm sure it looks good to people who watch Fox news, but for those who know how the world really works, it just doesn't add up, much like the wording used in the so-called magazine.
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Whats the url? Sounds delicious!