Fox News Ties Flame Malware To Angry Birds Because Both Use LUA
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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.
SOL is an acronym fro Simple Object Language, so you should type it in allcaps and avoid confusing it with the noun :)
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.
> Herridge's salary of $900,000 per year
Wait, never mind. :-/
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.
It's just that god awful headline. Fox News is notorious for headlines that have no bearing in reality.
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".
The rest is par for the course for any news organization covering technology.
In tomorrow's news, Obama uses cell phones, wears clothes, and drinks water, just like al Qaeda operatives do.
"Angry Birds encourages children to launch themselves at buildings. Suicide bombings expected to rise in coming months."