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:Boing Boing: Jailed for Using a Nonstandard Browser
Boing Boing: Jailed for Using a Nonstandard Browser
Jan 28, 2005, 22 :45 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (9752 reads)

"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..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
This is hilarious!  Well not being anywh ...   Hilarious!   
anonymous
Jan 29, 2005, 03:44:43
 
> This is hilarious!  Well not being any ...   Re: Hilarious!   
Nicholas Donovan
Jan 29, 2005, 05:50:36
 
Wish I could connect to DEC in the uk..  ...   Oh, well..   
Mike R.
Jan 29, 2005, 07:30:39
 
Credit to them though - the page front p ...   The site works well on Lynx   
Richard Corfield
Jan 29, 2005, 09:36:57
 
And now that I  think I made a donation  ...   Hilarious? Scary!   
th
Jan 29, 2005, 11:18:58
 
If this admin had an once of actual expe ...   Re: Re: Hilarious!   
I R A Darth Aggie
Jan 29, 2005, 18:14:08
 
Remember that in order to break down som ...   Don't just blame the sysadmin!   
Bob Robertson
Jan 30, 2005, 02:37:01
 
> Remember that in order to ...Yes?!Out  ...   Re: Don't just blame the sysadmin!   
R.L.
Jan 30, 2005, 15:57:03
 
> Remember that in order to break down s ...   Re: Don't just blame the sysadmin!   
Rainer Weikusat
Jan 30, 2005, 17:15:58
 
Don't think that the Brits have a mo ...   Imcompetence is rule   
Fred Mobach
Jan 30, 2005, 21:06:29
 
> > This is hilarious!  Well not being a ...   Re: Re: Hilarious!   
Kevin Hudson
Jan 31, 2005, 18:01:43
 
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