I sincerely hope the victim is going to make BT and the Police PAY! THis cries for a reparation payment! Aldo <blinuxman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 > > -- > > ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ > ~~ Osvaldo La Rosa ~~ http://www.brlspeak.net ~~ GNU/Linux? 2B FREE ~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~ No individual should be discriminated against on the basis of ~~ > ~~ disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, ~~ > ~~ facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of ~~ > ~~ public accommodation (American Disability Act - 42. U.S.C. 12182[a]) ~~ > ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- CYa, Mario | Debian Developer <URL:http://debian.org/> .''`. | Get my public key via finger mlang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx : :' : | 1024D/7FC1A0854909BCCDBE6C102DDFFC022A6B113E44 `. `' `- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list