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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."
I wish I could agree with that, but there are plenty of people in my age demographic (25-35) who get all of their talking-points from Fox News. I'm not sure why we eased up on the laws allowing Rupert Murdoch to own media in the U.S., but we pay for it every day in the form of continuing ignorance and whack-job propaganda/conspiracy theories.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
I know that's why I occasionally go to Fox news or Above top Secret or watch Glenn beck, because watching crazies is funny. Of course I do the same with MSNBC and HuffPo because they are just as batshit, just a different kind of batshit.
To me the truly crap your pants scary part is that the majority of folks that vote are old and as many know old folks are a hell of a lot more trusting and likely to believe what they see on TV. Hell last poll I saw had nearly 30% of Americans believing that Iraq did 9/11, how many years ago was that bullshit rumor pushed on a couple of networks? it just goes to show that once bullshit gets into people's heads its damned hard to get it out again.
What was that old saying? Tell a truth, half truth, and a lie and they'll believe all three? Well i think the ultra right and left media prove that you don't even need the truth and half truth parts, just make sure the lies reinforce themselves and conform to the viewers preconceived notions and you're all good to go.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Yes, and the Unabomber's manifesto was written in English, the same language used by Shakespeare. Now the bard is also a terrorist. I'm surprised they didn't call Flame a Brazilian plot. They're behind this whole LUA thing.
Oh, sure, if they just wanted to drop the name somewhere in the article as an example of how many popular games and applications use LUA, that would be one thing.
But this is not that thing.
The very title of the Fox article is the ever-so-fair-and-balanced:
Powerful ‘Flame’ cyberweapon tied to popular Angry Birds game
...So I'm going to have to go with "Fox News is Stupid" on this one.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?