Fox News Ties 'Flame' Malware To Angry Birds 188
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."
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Red birds (Score:5, Funny)
Now we know why those birds are red.They are obviously commies.
SO related (Score:5, Funny)
So.. Flame is about as related to Angry Birds as Fox News is related to facts then?
News Corp making a play for Rovio? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Fox is related to Terrorism (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:SO related (Score:5, Funny)
Fox News is written in the same language as the Unabomber Manifesto. Coincidence?
Re:News Corp making a play for Rovio? (Score:5, Funny)
... or "BMW 3-Series tied to Nazi death camps" ... or "Nuclear testing tied to Fukushima disaster" ... or "President Obama tied to Florida cannibal"
It's almost like a game, find the most outrageous thing you can tie to the most popular innocent sounding thing, using the most superficial of reasons.
"Killer Physics: Gyroscopic Effect Tied to All Motorcycle Fatalities!"
I'm not even all that creative, I'm sure others can do better.
Well, of Course... (Score:0, Funny)
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?!?
Re:SO related (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe not - the language WAS invented by psychotic warrior tribes (the Angles and Saxons) and then added to by other psychotic warrior tribes (the Norse, the Danes and the Normans).
Huh. Just thought. Maybe the Normans were psychotic out of confusion - none of them were actually CALLED Norman, they all had French names.
Re:ffs (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:SO related (Score:5, Funny)
I link the Assembly language idea. Scaring all Fox news listeners away from any computer use would help solve a lot of problems.
Re:News Corp making a play for Rovio? (Score:5, Funny)
"President Obama tied to Florida cannibal"
Somehow I can't help but read this one literally.
Re:Red birds (Score:5, Funny)
If they're cybercommies, they're probably from cyberia.
Muticolored birds! (Score:3, Funny)
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!!!
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