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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.

  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 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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  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. 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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  5. 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).