On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:29:46AM -0800, Neil Schneider wrote: > -------------------------- 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: >
Some reactions: 1. Literally couldn't decide to laugh or cry 2. that "sys admin" is as dumb as dirt, and deserves to be pithed (if he hasn't been already 3. the disconnect between law enforcement and technology is positively frightening. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
