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thedailywhat: Operation Cupcake of the Day: Would-be terrorists, who downloaded the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula-affiliated online publication Inspire, found bomb making instructions from “The AQ Chef” replaced by Ellen DeGeneres’s recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America,” courtesy of MI6 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). In a joint operation, the two British intelligence agencies hacked into the magazine to remove articles by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, as well as the aforementioned bomb-making article and a piece on “What to expect in Jihad.” The delicious disruption didn’t last long, however: AQAP reissued the magazine two weeks later. [telegraph.] That’s the shit you don’t normally hear about - they don’t normally DO something so obvious; if they find a chink in ‘the enemy’s’ security, they use it to monitor and maybe make subtle changes that won’t be noticed immediately. I’m guessing they expected their ‘backdoor’ to get closed soon, so they’d finish off with something that’d they could flout publicly. And more power to them! :)

thedailywhat:

Operation Cupcake of the Day: Would-be terrorists, who downloaded the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula-affiliated online publication Inspire, found bomb making instructions from “The AQ Chef” replaced by Ellen DeGeneres’s recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America,” courtesy of MI6 and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).

In a joint operation, the two British intelligence agencies hacked into the magazine to remove articles by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, as well as the aforementioned bomb-making article and a piece on “What to expect in Jihad.”

The delicious disruption didn’t last long, however: AQAP reissued the magazine two weeks later.

[telegraph.]

That’s the shit you don’t normally hear about - they don’t normally DO something so obvious; if they find a chink in ‘the enemy’s’ security, they use it to monitor and maybe make subtle changes that won’t be noticed immediately.

I’m guessing they expected their ‘backdoor’ to get closed soon, so they’d finish off with something that’d they could flout publicly. And more power to them! :)

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    If our money has to go towards “The War on Terror” - this type of stuff is totally acceptable to me.
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    This is probably one...all time. Brits are so cool.
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    I would like more
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    shit you don’t normally hear about - they don’t normally DO something so obvious; if they find