British Intelligence Has a Sense of Humor

[ProfJohn]

This is awesome!!

Britain’s spy agencies have a new message for terrorists: make cupcakes, not war.

Intelligence agents managed to hack into the extremist Inspire magazine, replacing its bombmaking instructions with a recipe for cupcakes.

It’s the first time the agents sabotaged the English-language magazine linked to U.S.-born Yemeni cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an extremist accused in several recent terror plots.

The quarterly online magazine, which is sent to websites and email addresses as a pdf file, had offered an original page titled “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom” in one of its editions last year. The magazine’s pages were corrupted, however, and the instructions replaced with the cupcake recipe.

“We’re increasingly using cybertools as part of our work,” a British government official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters said Friday, confirming that the Inspire magazine had been successfully attacked.

The hackers were reportedly working for Britain’s eavesdropping agency, GCHQ, which has boosted its resources in the past several years.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap..._61KEg?docId=017c09aaf7ad4df3b382b28c07df7f33

 

[HAL9000]

Genius. I read this somewhere earlier. Love it.

 

[ProfJohn]

They should have done pancakes.

 

[guyver01]

British Intelligence

If ever there was an oxymoron...

 

[HAL9000]

If ever there was an oxymoron...

You call me a troll....🙄

 

[guyver01]

You call me a troll....🙄

no.. that's not an oxymoron... that's a statement of fact.

you ARE a troll.

and i see you STILL haven't been permitted to have your icon back...

how does probation feel?

 

[Red Dawn]

You call me a troll....🙄

He can smell his own kind?

 

[HAL9000]

no.. that's not an oxymoron... that's a statement of fact.

you ARE a troll.

So you are retracting your sarcasm from the previous statement?

You are now saying that there is such a thing as british intelligence? 😕

 

[guyver01]

He can smell his own kind?

Hey.. at least i can admit when i'm trolling. I have no delusion about what i do sometimes

 

[ProfJohn]

Awesome add on to this story:

British special operators have a long history of this sort of thing. During 1941′s Operation Claymore, the first successful commando raid on German industrial interests in Norway, some 800,000 gallons of glycerin (for use in munitions) were destroyed, several ships were sunk, and over 200 Germans were taken prisoner. The commandos met so little resistance during the landing that one even had time to go to a local post office and send a telegram to “A.Hitler,Berlin.” It read: “You said in your last speech German troops would meet the British wherever they landed. Where are your troops?”

 

[Malak]

Hey.. at least i can admit when i'm trolling. I have no delusion about what i do sometimes

Do you mean sometimes you are delusional or sometimes you aren't trolling?

The thread on international trolling is now about international trolling.

 

[Slew Foot]

Should have done pork chops, or beer brats.

 

[guyver01]

Do you mean sometimes you are delusional or sometimes you aren't trolling?

sometimes i'm not trolling 🙂:whiste:

 

[Bignate603]

Awesome add on to this story:

I have to admit, sometimes the brits have a certain sense of style. 😎

 

[tokie]

Wait a sec, neckbeard is on probation?

Also, I find Brits have a dry sense of humour.

 

[Jeff7]

Awesome add on to this story:

British special operators have a long history of this sort of thing. During 1941′s Operation Claymore, the first successful commando raid on German industrial interests in Norway, some 800,000 gallons of glycerin (for use in munitions) were destroyed, several ships were sunk, and over 200 Germans were taken prisoner. The commandos met so little resistance during the landing that one even had time to go to a local post office and send a telegram to “A.Hitler,Berlin.” It read: “You said in your last speech German troops would meet the British wherever they landed. Where are your troops?”

I guess this is what eventually evolved into something like a digital picture captioned "PWNED".