Tony Wants to Clear His Afternoon to Play a Video

Tony wants to clear his afternoon to play a video game. He needs to manufacture an emergency and tell his boss that the servers are vulnerable to an "Evil Bit" attack, and it will take all afternoon to fix them. This sounds bad, so the boss tells him to get right on it.
What is Tony really talking about?

A) He is referring to a character in his video game, but the boss doesn't realize this
B) He just gave the boss a simple explanation for a real attack knowing he wouldn't understand the right
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C) The high order bit in the fragment offset field is set, but it is supposed to be reserved with a value 0, and most IP stacks have not been updated to understand it. It crashes the system
D) This is an IT inside Joke