Andor Demarteau writes: > :) luckily you can set your browserstring in nearly all unix browsers > includidng lynx. Yes, and it sometimes even works to do that. However, it often breaks as many sites try to customize to particular browser behaviors. > > 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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list