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Boing Boing: Jailed 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…”

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