Boing Boing: Jailed for Using a Nonstandard Browser
Jan 28, 2005, 22:45 (11 Talkback[s])
"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..."
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