As a Playstation 3 owner, I’ve been one of the people who had to deal with the PSN being shut down due to hackers for over a month (almost a month? less than a month? whatever). It was a move that seemed slightly questionable — do we really need to have a free gaming network shut down and identity data potentially stolen simply because Linux was taken away from PS3’s? It just seems to be more extreme than you would expect.
Luckily, though, it would appear that all hackers are obviously crazy. MI6, the British intelligence agency, recently hacked the computers of al-Qaeda (which is not to be confused with All-Qaeder). Actions that they took, but were not limited too, included changing a downloadable 67-page color magazine for new prospects, updating the instructions about how to “Make a bomb in the Kitchen of your Mom” to randomized computer code. Which is where it gets weird.
The code, which had been inserted into the original magazine by the British intelligence hackers, was actually a web page of recipes for “The Best Cupcakes in America” published by the Ellen DeGeneres chat show.
I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, but like the earlier mentioned hacking idea, it just seems questionable. And horribly, horribly un-badass.