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MI6 Swaps Bomb Making Info With Cupcake Recipe On al-Qaeda Website

Posted by samzenpus on from the now-you're-cooking dept.

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."

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  1. You might say... by Mabbo · · Score: 5, Funny

    *puts on sunglasses* ... those cupcakes were dynamite.

    1. Re:You might say... by dgatwood · · Score: 2

      That cake was da bomb. It's to die for.

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    2. Re:You might say... by dgatwood · · Score: 2

      The yellow cake is a lie.

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  2. Wrong approach by Clueless+Moron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Wrong approach by symes · · Score: 2

      I guess the worry is that they'd be able to work out what the small change was, or worse inadvertantly blow themselves up and take a few unsuspecting neighbours. Plus humour is a nice way of countering the lonely disenfranchised basement dwelling types who might be attracted to this sort of thing.

    2. Re:Wrong approach by crow_t_robot · · Score: 2

      Good idea.

      They should have changed the instructions to the ever-popular "how to make crystals" article that regularly pops up on 4chan. Change the name to "how to make semtex" then wait for hilarity.

    3. Re:Wrong approach by mr1911 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You assume that wasn't done.

      If you are not absolutely sure you got in and out undetected, make it look like you are after something else is a good way to hide your true intention.

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    4. Re:Wrong approach by Hal_Porter · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It was funny when the nutters tried to blow up Glasgow Airport. They tried to ram an SUV full of propane and petrol into the building but got stuck between concrete bollards designed to stop ram raiders. Then set fire to themselves but were attacked by a baggage handler who gave some funny interviews. Incidentally these guys were NHS doctors which makes you wonder how competent they actually were at treating people.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smeaton_(born_1976)#Television_interviews

      There was much talk of failed terrorist attacks and they even had some American terrorism expert saying "these guys must have taken the short bus to terrorism school". Someone else said "maybe we're entering an era when people on fire in cars on fire get drive around and everyone just considers it normal".

      The whole terrorism thing isn't viable if people laugh at you - it will be hard to recruit people if the last lot died horribly and become a national joke.

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  3. lol rum by mustPushCart · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Its the extra kick in the balls when they put up an alcoholic recipe knowing fully well that its against Islam

  4. My god man by ArchieBunker · · Score: 2

    Someone post the recipe already, sounds delicious.

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  5. Copyright? by abelenky17 · · Score: 2

    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?

    1. Re:Copyright? by julesh · · Score: 5, Informative

      Will WarnerBros pursue MI-6, who will disavow all knowledge?

      They wouldn't even respond. MI6 (or rather SIS... MI6 was a name used by the media to refer to the organization when its existence was a badly kept secret but nobody knew what it was actually called) enjoys crown immunity from prosecution (except for tort or contract violations -- copyright violations are neither).

  6. Misleading headline by ArhcAngel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else read the headline and think that MI6 had given Al Qaeda bomb plans in return for a cupcake recipe?

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  7. Re:Sense of humor by Dog-Cow · · Score: 3, Funny

    Humour.

  8. "SWAPS"?!!!! Oh no!!! by michelcolman · · Score: 2

    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!

  9. The cupcake ... by Aaron_Pike · · Score: 2

    The cupcake is a fib.

  10. In A.D. 2011 by kat_skan · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.