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Author: "Trei, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 28th January 2005 10:16:32 am For IP, if you wish. A post to boingboing from Cory Doctorow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow) whom I generally regard as a reliable source. However, I have not myself been able to further confirm the story. It hasn't appeared on several British newspaper sites today, nor has the BBC done a followup. Interesting, if true. Peter Trei --------------------------- 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 :( BBC article link <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4195339.stm> (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 You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
