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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Jailed for using a non-standard browser

According to BoingBoing:"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."

BoingBoing then quotes an unknown mailing list on the details, and gives a link to a not-very-useful BBC News report.

Be interesting to see if this ever makes it to court, as it could expose what appear to be previously unsuspected levels of incompetence and stupidity.

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