Iran's Cardboard Khomeini: Now Available As Malware 51
An anonymous reader writes "Symantec has identified a Malware embedded into a Iranian recipe app for Android that destroys images stored on a camera by stamping the cardboard image of Khomeini on it. The controversy stems from a bizarre February 1 ceremony that sought to recreate Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's triumphant return to Tehran in 1979 after 14 years of exile. Immediately fueling a firestorm of ridicule drawing a cult following online. The threat only appears to be focused in App for Farsi and only in third party app markets, according to Symantec."
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More like they're installing malware on their own phones.
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Haha forgot to post anon, you horrible bigot.
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Haha forgot to post anon, you horrible bigot.
I am proud to stand for religious freedom, equality of all in the eyes of the law, and equal rights for men and women. Islam is against all of these. If you support Islam and Sharia then you are the bigot.
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Well of course I'd never do such a thing, but I know well what they do there. How is it relevant to the discussion? If I make such a visit do you think I'll come to hate all Muslims? Do you think that other religions haven't created similar legal systems in the past?
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Do you think that other religions haven't created similar legal systems in the past?
Yes, they did. Most of them died out or got over it. Islam has yet to have its version of the Enlightenment, and it's showing in our modern world.
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Keep telling yourself that. Meanwhile, those radicals will cut your head off, rape the women of your family, and enslave your children. Mainstream Muslims will stand back and nod their heads. "The unbelievers will free themselves of oppression, if Allah be willing. Or, the unbelievers will die under the yoke of oppression, if Allah be willing. We don't really give a damn, because they are unbelievers."
Note that there is plenty of ignorance to go around. Yours is not the only variety.
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You really think mainstream Muslims are sympathetic to the extremists? Why would you think that? When you answer make sure it would not be the same if you replaced each instance of "Muslim" with "Christian."
Those I've spoken to say the extremists are "not Muslim" and have misinterpreted the Quaran.
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Mainstream anyone doesn't really give a damn. Look at the mainstream American. He doesn't care enough to be an activist for any cause. If this side wins, he's alright with it. If that side wins, he can live with it.
Ditto with Islam. Mainstream Muslim doesn't really care. Go back, reread what I posted. If Allah be willing - that removes all responsibility from the individual for taking sides.
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Very well, so now how does this make Islam particularly bad? Why should they all be painted with the same brush as the extremists, while Christians and atheists don't deserve the same?
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Who, exactly, said that Christians and athiests DON'T deserve the same? Surely, it wasn't me. I can't think of any group of people, whether nationality, creed, race, religion, or whatever, that doesn't have some radical sumbitches. Despicable lowlifes come in all sizes, shapes, colors, or whatever variety you care to name.
As long as that despicable sumbitch makes noises that part of his group can identify with, the group isn't going to complain.
Where do you think that I drew my original conclusion from?
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Well you could say similar things about Christianity. Technically hey should be stoning women who cheat on their husbands and using their daughters as sacrificial rape victims.
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No, actually you couldn't say it. While you are correct that stoning was a punishment for adultery in the old testament, Jesus explicitly canceled the punishment in the New Testament (see John 8:7). But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Only followers of one religion in the world stone people today -- that's Islam, and it's hardly a rare occurrence
But let's say for the sake of argument C
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Still it seems wrong to demonize Islam because it's slightly worse on paper. Christians are just lucky there are no shithole countries with fundamentalist Christian theocracies to point to. It could have happened just as easily.
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If it could happen just as easily, why hasn't it? It's not like there is a shortage of Christians. The answer is that Christianity lacks the legal and political structure that Islam has. Sharia is a lot more than a code of family law of simple dietary laws. It's a comprehensive legal and governmental system dictating everything from how you wash yourself, to how foreign policy should be handled. Because of this built-in structure, and inability to separate church from state (such would be blasphemy) Isl
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But why not? It didn't happen. It never happened. Gee, could there actually be a reason other than blind luck?
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It has happened, many times throughout history, it's just that none exist today, probably in large part because no big first-world country has ever backed a Christian theocratic dictator/terrorist group to get to some sweet foreign oil.
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any sort of fundamentalism is no good. It's the active avoidance of conversation.
Also, we hear a lot more about islamic terrorists then christian ones. Though those cases exist, I hear a lot more about attacks from islam then attacks from christianity. also, the scale of Islamic attacks to christian ones is different.
Bus-Bombings out-scale the Westboro Baptists being offensive.
9/11 out-scales every terroristic attack ever carried out (not counting acts of war and prolonged genocide).
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If you support Islam and Sharia then you are the bigot.
Don't tell me....you're a Christian, aren't you?
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If you support Islam and Sharia then you are the bigot.
Don't tell me....you're a Christian, aren't you?
no
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who are basically an extension/offshoot of types like the national front/BNP(british national party) who are outright racist organisations.
your sweeping general-isms painting a whole religion as bad due to some assholes paints you as a bigot.. oh.. and a twat
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aye.... the "bomb the underground" kinda places you as perhaps English so at a guess i would say you are one of those twats from the EDL(English Defence League) as does your use of the term "muzzies" who are basically an extension/offshoot of types like the national front/BNP(british national party) who are outright racist organisations.
No, whereas I think the EDL have a correct assessment of Islam, a lot of them are severely racist. As I said previously I believe that everyone should be treated equally. And just so you know, I would treat any other group which professed an aim of world domination, subjugation of others, and had launched terror attacks against us the same way I treat Muslims.
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best you treat the Westminster like like that then.... if you have to ask for that statement to be qualified then you have been living in a hole
basically you are a simple bigot, with an emphasis on simple
Grammar check: collective nouns (Score:3)
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Ah, but this not a mere "malware". It is a "Malware".
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But the more important thing is how were going to handle all of these malwares on the a Internets?
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(And so begins Phase II of my study: Is it possible to induce an aneurysm over the Internet?)
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There may be a flaw in my methodology...
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Please be kind to the ESL speakers.
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The GPs comment was just about the kindest thing he could say. If English is your second language, then articles will be hard for you. That's OK, there was no scorn in the GP post. It was purely informational, and useful.
The alternative is to let ESL speakers use articles incorrectly forever. I don't think that's very kind at all.
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Proper grammar? You must be new here.
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Who's that again?
From my experience: a malware factory, to be avoided at all costs.
That's nothing! (Score:3)
What about the J.J. Abrams malware that puts annoying lens flare on all your photos and videos?