Friday, January 28, 2005

Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser

Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser: "ailed for using a nonstandard browser
A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this 'unusual' event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:"

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