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Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the freak-outs dept.

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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  1. Re:Corrections by rjw57 · · Score: 1, Troll

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

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    Rich