{"id":4032,"date":"2009-01-21T06:05:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2009-01-21T06:05:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T11:05:11","slug":"theres-bugs-and-then-theres-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4032","title":{"rendered":"There’s Bugs, And Then There’s Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bad bugs:\u00a0 rumors that the military has been targeted by some serious computer viruses are, at least in the UK, paralyzingly true<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The bug has caused havoc for days across all three Armed Forces, with thousands of MoD computers shut down.<\/p>\n

But it failed to penetrate top-secret systems, officials said yesterday. Boffins [what’d be called “Twidgies” in the US Navy] at the Government Communications HQ in Cheltenham, Gloucs, believe it was caused by an official \u201csyncing\u201d his personal email.<\/p>\n

At least 24 Royal Air Force bases and several Royal Navy vessels have \u201cground to a halt\u201d. The RAF had to cancel training flights and up to 75 per cent of ships were affected, meaning sailors could not get messages home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, Al Quaeda has some even more serious bug problems<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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At least 40 al-Qaeda fanatics died horribly after being struck down with the disease that devastated Europe in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

The killer bug, also known as the plague, swept through insurgents training at a forest camp in Algeria, North Africa. It came to light when security forces found a body by a roadside.<\/p>\n

The victim was a terrorist in AQLIM (al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb), the largest and most powerful al-Qaeda group outside the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I don’t believe karma, but I think what goes around comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bad bugs:\u00a0 rumors that the military has been targeted by some serious computer viruses are, at least in the UK, paralyzingly true: The bug has caused havoc for days across all three Armed Forces, with thousands of MoD computers shut down. But it failed to penetrate top-secret systems, officials said yesterday. Boffins [what’d be called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}