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Fox News Ties Flame Malware To Angry Birds Because Both Use LUA

35 points by mrsebastian 14y ago

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bcl 14y ago
Morons. You can't really say much more than that.
- Retric 14y ago
  I think it's reasonable to add that their coverage is universally bad. If you knew a lot a about say Medicine or Law you would find their coverage just as bad on those topics. Worse yet most news organizations are just as bad if not worse.
  - mtgx 14y ago
    Fox News is definitely one of the worst. There was a recent survey saying that watching Fox News makes you less informed, than if you didn't watch any news at all. Hard to believe that watching news would make you less informed, but in this case it's most likely true. In that survey Fox News also scored the lowest (worst).
    - droithomme 14y ago
      I wonder if the study found that was true for all TV news. Honestly, people who get their news from any TV shows at all at this point in history aren't really all that informed in general.
  - Stratoscope 14y ago
    It's a bit scary to watch a news report or documentary on a subject you know well. One of my favorite clips is the "Computator" from How It's Made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQJxCXbFA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQJxCXbFA http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JOPCP8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JOPCP8
amitparikh 14y ago
And they refer to it as 'LUA', even though the About page http://www.lua.org/about.html http://www.lua.org/about.html clearly says to use the noun 'Lua' as the name of the language. First class journalism.
kbd 14y ago
They couldn't even report the name accurately. It's "Lua" not "LUA".
pygy_ 14y ago
Today's pedantic minute is sponsored by the Lua community. Yes, Lua, not LUA, you dimwit journalists (the allcaps version is used in every article about Flame I've read). Lua is not an acronym, it means "moon" in Portuguese, it is the successor of Sol (sun), a little known data description language.
- ufo 14y ago
  Todays's pedantic minute is sponsored by the non-existant SOL comunity. SOL is an acronym fro Simple Object Language, so you should type it in allcaps and avoid confusing it with the noun :)
  - pygy_ 14y ago
    You learn something new every day. SOL, then, but I'll leave my first post intact in order not to ruin your joke. The Lua community is also barely existent, BTW.
aaronharnly 14y ago
My favorite morsel, of many tasty bites, from the article: "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful."
- ktizo 14y ago
  That quote belongs on a t-shirt, but I wouldn't like to wear it while going through an airport.
moondowner 14y ago
And all those malware written in C? Shame on you Linus.
- pyre 14y ago
  Linus? He's small potatoes! Intel makes their own C compiler! This is a conspiracy that goes straight to the top!
chucklarge 14y ago
Linking Angry Birds and terrorism is kind of brilliant.
- pyre 14y ago
  Next Fox News headline: "Angry Birds encourages children to launch themselves at buildings. Suicide bombings expected to rise in coming months."
droithomme 14y ago
That's totally absurd and would completely destroy their reputation as serious journalists if they had one. In tomorrow's news, Obama uses cell phones, wears clothes, and drinks water, just like al Qaeda operatives do.
jere 14y ago
The content of the article really wasn't that bad (mentioning that Angry Birds uses Lua is a perfectly fine way to add some context). It's just that god awful headline. Fox News is notorious for headlines that have no bearing in reality.
- Deestan 14y ago
  > The content of the article really wasn't that bad Oh yes it was! Some quotes: - "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful, making it practically an army on its own" - "Flame is likewise a form of spyware that enters a computer system, though exactly how is unclear." - "once you know the email address or computer IP address ... they can introduce Flame remotely." Also phrases like "a code" and "built with gamer code".
  - jere 14y ago
    Ah, well, I meant with regards to Angry Birds. The rest is par for the course for any news organization covering technology.
freehunter 14y ago
Some servers hosting/infected with Flame are running HTML... just like Fox News! I need to sell this information to MSNBC.
shareme 14y ago
for my next republican infection virus I will use the language called BillOReilly...it will be 100 times bigger in hot air than Rush Limbaugh
vegardx 14y ago
Did you know that Norway is not a democracy, because police don't carry guns? You heard it first at Fox News!
diego_moita 14y ago
If anyone is interested in real news: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questions_and_Answers http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi... Flame is a "virus" with about 20 MB using all sorts of libraries: sqlite3, zlib, Lua, etc. Pure Lua code is relatively small, just 3000 lines.
nhebb 14y ago
And that, folks, is the value of a journalism degree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge > Herridge's salary of $900,000 per year Wait, never mind. :-/

35 points by mrsebastian 14y ago

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bcl 14y ago

Morons. You can't really say much more than that.

Retric 14y ago
I think it's reasonable to add that their coverage is universally bad. If you knew a lot a about say Medicine or Law you would find their coverage just as bad on those topics. Worse yet most news organizations are just as bad if not worse.
- mtgx 14y ago
  Fox News is definitely one of the worst. There was a recent survey saying that watching Fox News makes you less informed, than if you didn't watch any news at all. Hard to believe that watching news would make you less informed, but in this case it's most likely true. In that survey Fox News also scored the lowest (worst).
  - droithomme 14y ago
    I wonder if the study found that was true for all TV news. Honestly, people who get their news from any TV shows at all at this point in history aren't really all that informed in general.
- Stratoscope 14y ago
  It's a bit scary to watch a news report or documentary on a subject you know well. One of my favorite clips is the "Computator" from How It's Made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQJxCXbFA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBnQJxCXbFA http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JOPCP8 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JOPCP8

amitparikh 14y ago

And they refer to it as 'LUA', even though the About page http://www.lua.org/about.html http://www.lua.org/about.html clearly says to use the noun 'Lua' as the name of the language. First class journalism.

kbd 14y ago

They couldn't even report the name accurately. It's "Lua" not "LUA".

pygy_ 14y ago

Today's pedantic minute is sponsored by the Lua community. Yes, Lua, not LUA, you dimwit journalists (the allcaps version is used in every article about Flame I've read). Lua is not an acronym, it means "moon" in Portuguese, it is the successor of Sol (sun), a little known data description language.

ufo 14y ago
Todays's pedantic minute is sponsored by the non-existant SOL comunity. SOL is an acronym fro Simple Object Language, so you should type it in allcaps and avoid confusing it with the noun :)
- pygy_ 14y ago
  You learn something new every day. SOL, then, but I'll leave my first post intact in order not to ruin your joke. The Lua community is also barely existent, BTW.

aaronharnly 14y ago

My favorite morsel, of many tasty bites, from the article: "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful."

ktizo 14y ago
That quote belongs on a t-shirt, but I wouldn't like to wear it while going through an airport.

moondowner 14y ago

And all those malware written in C? Shame on you Linus.

pyre 14y ago
Linus? He's small potatoes! Intel makes their own C compiler! This is a conspiracy that goes straight to the top!

chucklarge 14y ago

Linking Angry Birds and terrorism is kind of brilliant.

pyre 14y ago
Next Fox News headline: "Angry Birds encourages children to launch themselves at buildings. Suicide bombings expected to rise in coming months."

droithomme 14y ago

That's totally absurd and would completely destroy their reputation as serious journalists if they had one. In tomorrow's news, Obama uses cell phones, wears clothes, and drinks water, just like al Qaeda operatives do.

jere 14y ago

The content of the article really wasn't that bad (mentioning that Angry Birds uses Lua is a perfectly fine way to add some context). It's just that god awful headline. Fox News is notorious for headlines that have no bearing in reality.

Deestan 14y ago
> The content of the article really wasn't that bad Oh yes it was! Some quotes: - "this new weapon is twenty times the size of earlier cyberbombs and far more powerful, making it practically an army on its own" - "Flame is likewise a form of spyware that enters a computer system, though exactly how is unclear." - "once you know the email address or computer IP address ... they can introduce Flame remotely." Also phrases like "a code" and "built with gamer code".
- jere 14y ago
  Ah, well, I meant with regards to Angry Birds. The rest is par for the course for any news organization covering technology.

freehunter 14y ago

Some servers hosting/infected with Flame are running HTML... just like Fox News! I need to sell this information to MSNBC.

shareme 14y ago

for my next republican infection virus I will use the language called BillOReilly...it will be 100 times bigger in hot air than Rush Limbaugh

vegardx 14y ago

Did you know that Norway is not a democracy, because police don't carry guns? You heard it first at Fox News!

diego_moita 14y ago

If anyone is interested in real news: http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questions_and_Answers http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi... Flame is a "virus" with about 20 MB using all sorts of libraries: sqlite3, zlib, Lua, etc. Pure Lua code is relatively small, just 3000 lines.

nhebb 14y ago

And that, folks, is the value of a journalism degree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge > Herridge's salary of $900,000 per year Wait, never mind. :-/