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.

Comments

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

[Anonymous Coward]

... which is why you all should just accept the Euro and use that :)

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

[Associate]

Better yet, they could use the American Greenback.

Re:Corrections

[rjw57]

[troll]And president is the American spelling of the British 'dictator'[/troll] :)