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MI6 hackers hit terrorist website with cupcakes

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

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

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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? ;) :P

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

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