Cupcakes for al-Qaida
UK spies hack al-Qaida, replace bomb info with cupcake recipes
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British spies hacked into an al-Qaida website to replace instructions on how to build a bomb with recipes for making cupcakes, newspapers reported on Friday.
The cyber offensive took place last year when the English language magazine called Inspire, aimed at Muslims in the West, was launched by supporters of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
British intelligence officers based at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the state eavesdropping service, attacked the 67-page magazine, leaving most of it garbled, British newspapers said.
Instead of being able to read how to "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom," readers were greeted with computer code which actually contained recipes from The Best Cupcakes in America, published by U.S. chat show host Ellen DeGeneres.
The Washington Post reported that the British action followed a dispute between the CIA and the newly formed U.S. Cyber Command.
The cyber unit had wanted to block the al Qaeda magazine but the CIA, which had countered such an attack would expose sources and intelligence methods, won the debate and declined to allow an attack on Inspire.
The paper reported that it took almost two weeks for AQAP to post a corrected version of the magazine after it had been sabotaged.
A British security source said the Post's report was accurate but could not confirm details of the reported cupcake operation.
Last year, Britain's new National Security Strategy placed cyber attacks as one of the top threats to the country, and ministers have repeatedly spoken out about the danger posed by extremist Islamist websites.
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got to try dat killer cupcakes, choco, will give a feedback afterwards....
and I was wondering y the cup cakes are always exploding :P
...me and my big mouth!
whattodo now, yanni? :(
I hear Lard works well for making up cakes...;)
garlic cupcakes? thats good for dracula ;-p
Stay tuned for my next recipe...
Garlic Cupcakes....
LOL Britexpat!
I just read that they have discovered a food that reduces a lady's sex drive by over 90%.
It's a wedding Cake !
well how much for this cupcake of destruction? ;-p cuz i will order a dozen..
Thanks FatimaH....I think :D
With cupcakes like that you would make an excellent terrorist! TFS =D
KILLER CUPCAKES
Cupcakes:
4 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 pound butter
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line standard muffin tins with paper cupcake liners. In the top part of a double boiler, or in microwave, melt the chocolate with the vanilla extract and butter.
In a large bowl, beat the eggs until thick and add the sugar. Beat in the flour. Fold in the butter-chocolate mixture. Spoon into the prepared tins, filling the cups 2/3 full.
Filling:
8 ounces cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg, beaten
Dash of salt
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Mix the cream cheese, sugar, egg and salt until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop a rounded teaspoon of filling onto the top of each cupcake. Bake for 30 minutes.
Makes 20 to 22 cupcakes.
:)
Yes, Agree
Yes, I wondered if they bothered to send descent recipes or if they chose awful ones. Maybe next we will see an al-Qaida bake sale.
ochiha--Isn't that what al-Qaidah is trying to do already?
Personally I'd think cupcakes are lethal in themselves and obesity can kill as surely as bombs can so maybe this could be Al Qaida's new weapon of mass destruction!
AL Qaidah Should track those people and bomb them just like what america would do ;)
see what I mean here!
Cyber Attacks, Now Acts of War
Obviously, they haven't had one of Chocoholic's Cup cakes - They are lethal ;o(