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Angry Birds Site Hacked, Firm Points to Wider Issue

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Mark Melin
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After revelations that a popular internet game, Angry Birds, was used by the National Security Agency (NSA) and UK’s GCHQ to download a spy application on user computers, the web site was summarily hacked and defaced.  Last night a hacker placed an NSA logo on the Bird’s head and replaced the name of the game with the title “Spying Birds.”

Angry Birds Site Hacked, Firm Points to Wider Issue

Angry Birds used for spying

The revelation that the Angry Bird's game was being used as a spy apparatus was first revealed in documents provided...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.