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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
Lua is not an acronym. It is a WORD. It even strains on the lua.org website, that Lua is a word meaning moon in Portuguese, not an acronym.
If it were an acronym it'd stand for "learn ur acronyms".
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.
The Washington Post wrote a similar piece yesterday that I read. Headline was less direct but linked it in the first paragraph.
As did a number of other sources.
So, how does this apply only to Fox?
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
That would involve actually reading the website. Based on the tenuosity of the connection, I don't think they could handle that.
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.
as long as there are 'young republicans' (and, sadly, there are) then there will be faux news, telling it how they want to hear it.
blame the churches and religion. they keep feeding the republicans more and more new blood.
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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.