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

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

And that, folks, is the value of a journalism degree: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Herridge</a><p>&#62; <i>Herridge's salary of $900,000 per year </i><p>Wait, never mind. :-/

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."

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

If anyone is interested in real news: <a href="http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questions_and_Answers" rel="nofollow">http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/208193522/The_Flame_Questi...</a><p>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.

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).<p>It's just that god awful headline. Fox News is notorious for headlines that have no bearing in reality.

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

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

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

Linking Angry Birds and terrorism is kind of brilliant.

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

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

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