Cup cake cyber bombs

British intelligence officers used cup cake recipes to sabotage the launch of a website that was affiliated to al-Qaida. They attacked an online jihadist magazine with a pdf file containing cup cake recipes. The sabotage caused a row between agencies in the US about who would attack the website. As one agency thinks it was a legitimate way to protect troops overseas, another agency claims that such an attack exposes sources and intelligence methods. British agencies grapple with how to cope with the threat, as extreme jihadist websites become more influential. But the battle against cyber-attacks is conducted separately by different agencies and departments and diplomacy and policy are only just beginning to catch up with technology.

Personal comment:

Although Bush always tried to disparaged al-Qaida as a terrorist organisation that lack intelligence and technology, it is clear that al-Qaida uses internet, computers, cell phones and all other modern and current technology. They are not stupid or ignorant. Obviously I do not agree with their methods and I do not like the world to be converted into an Islamic one, but I would have loved to see the faces of al-Qaida members when they opened that particular file. I do not understand how these things work, as I am rather a computer illiterate, but I always have known that cup cakes are sugar bombs.  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/02/british-intelligence-ruins-al-qaida-website