Use Lynx And Go To Jail

[Sean McMahon]

For reference what's so non-standard about lynx?  You have the user agent tag,
can still see the operating system,  all the other cgi stuff right?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>; <blinux-list-bounces at redhat.com>;
<ma-linux at tux.org>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 2:08 PM
Subject: Use Lynx And Go To Jail


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> http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html
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> 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.
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>      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 :(
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> -- 
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> 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.
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