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Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds
eldavojohn writes "The title of this hard-hitting piece of journalism reads 'Powerful 'Flame' cyberweapon tied to popular Angry Birds game,' and opens with, 'The most sophisticated and powerful cyberweapon uncovered to date was written in the LUA computer language, cyber security experts tell Fox News — the same one used to make the incredibly popular Angry Birds game.' The rest of the details that are actually pertinent to the story follow that important message. The graphic for this story? Perhaps a map of Iran, or the LUA logo, or maybe the stereotyped evil hacker in a ski mask? Nope, all Angry Birds. Describing LUA as 'Gamer Code,' Fox for some reason (popularity?) selects Angry Birds from an insanely long list in their article implying guilt-by-shared-development-language. I'm not sure if explaining machine language to them would alleviate the perceived problem or cause them to burn their desktops in the streets and launch a new crusade to protect the children."
It would make a crazy sort of sense, yes? If Angry Birds was actually malware...
Bits of code, random ramblings: jakimfett.com
Now we know why those birds are red.They are obviously commies.
Ninjas don't carry tic tacs
So.. Flame is about as related to Angry Birds as Fox News is related to facts then?
I've built up so much character I have an alter-ego
Seriously, some people should be banned for life from writing tech stories. That's somewhat akin to saying the Queen of England is tied to a kidnapping because the ransom note was written in English.
This just in - Fox News is related to Terrorism in that both use the english language to communicate.
See what I did there Fox? Yeah. We saw what you did there too.
Angry Birds is obviously an evil socialist liberal attack on conservative American values! Look at it: Liberal bird brains get pissed when they lose their nest egg to wealthy conservatives, done up as pigs in an obvious ad hominem attack, when they slack off on the job. They then conspire to fly into the "pigs" buildings, bringing them crashing down on their poor heads. This is just more proof that liberals are really a bunch of terrorist sympathizers! /sarcasm
It's funny laugh! Please, laugh? Why are you all looking at me that way?!?
Not only is it used by gamers and LaTeX (obviously a secret fetishist group), it's got a Foreign Name! That must surely be all the evidence Fox needs!
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Some a them birds are yellow. They must be Jap'nese. Doesn't anyone remember Pearl Harbor anymore?
Others are black. You know about them.
Still others are blue. Must be from some a them blue states!
In fact, this whole multicolored thing reminds me of (shaking head) multiculturalism. Angry Birds is rooning Murka!!!
Fox News is commonly written in English, the same language used to write Twilight. This clearly ties them to sparkly vampires who are destroying our youth.