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belchingmatt

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MI6 hackers hit terrorist website with cupcakes


	Quote: British intelligence has hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes. The cyber-warfare operation was carried out by MI6 and the GCHQ signals intelligence agency to disrupt the terrorists' attempts to recruit "lone-wolf" agents using a new English-language web publication called Inspire, The Daily Telegraph understands. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/securi ... z1OBxDufd0

I wonder if a recipe for a bacon sandwich was deemed too inflammatory.

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Re: MI6 hackers hit terrorist website with cupcakes

And in other news the Good Housekeeping website altered its cupcake recipes to include semtex. :lol:

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Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:09 am

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Re: MI6 hackers hit terrorist website with cupcakes

Is it possible they were just trying to help them, and that this is just another damning indictment of our arms manufacturing capability?

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	Spreadie wrote: Is it possible they were just trying to help them, and that this is just another damning indictment of our arms manufacturing capability?

Could it have been that the government have outsourced cyber defence to the Womens Institute under Big Society initiative? :lol:

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