-------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- Subject: [Politech] U.K. man arrested,jailed for using non-standard Web browser? [fs] From: "Declan McCullagh" <[email protected]> Date: Thu, January 27, 2005 8:35 pm To: [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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 :( _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/) -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D "All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies." -- Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735) -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
