:) luckily you can set your browserstring in nearly all unix browsers includidng lynx. I'd set it to IE as specially if I was hacking thy'd mistake it for a virus ;) probably a win200[03] IIS webserver and admin I'd say otherwise he/she certainly would know what lynx is. stupid windhoosadmins On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Aldo wrote: > Src: BoingBoing.net > > Thursday, January 27, 2005 > > 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. From a mailing list: > > For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT > [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an > access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying > it's type and it's doing strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that > hacker. > > Armed police, a van, a police cell and national news later the > police have gone in SWAT styley and arrested someone having their > lunch. > > Out on bail till next week and preparing to make a lot of very bad > PR for BT and the Police.... > > So just goes to show if you use anything other than Firefox or IE > and you rely on someone else to interogate access logs or IDS logs > you too could be sitting in a paper suit in a cell :( > > [*]Link (Thanks, Patrick!) > > Update:: The source that told me about this has corroborated it with > more detail in private email, but is leery of going public. I hope > that more publicly available details appear soon, and will post them > when I have them. > > posted by Cory Doctorow at 12:08:00 AM > > [*] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4195339.stm > > http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html > > > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen Storm 2002-2004 vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list