Well, I guess that they will feed you. But I'd miss my computers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com>; <ma-linux at tux.org> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 3:08 PM Subject: Use Lynx And Go To Jail > > > http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html > > 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 :( > > -- > > Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 > Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com > > Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) > janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
