Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx

wezzul writes "A Londoner made a tsunami-relief donation using Lynx 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." Honestly, though, aside from a BBC article about a tsunami fund hacking probe that doesn't mention user agents there's little to corroborate this. Hopefully Lynx users need not worry too much yet.

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Why was this rejected ?

[abhinavmodi]

I know this is off topic and will be modded down, but this is not a rant. I submitted this story yesterday itself, feeling this was my chance to "give back to the community". I am not sure why this was rejected, when I feel that the post was coherent and grammatically/lexically appropriate. May I suggest a small "Reason" for rejection being handed out so that we can improve our journalistic skills to the high standards of /. ?

Re:Thank God for people....

[iwan-nl]

Who the hell modded this funny? As far as I can tell he's being dead serious. Polyps are quite dangerous. The parent tries to warn the grandparent he might have a serious medical condition. There's nothing funny about that. Go figure.

Re:Where's the buggy-eyed smily when you need it?

[GWTPict]

The Queen of England's tits are of course German.