Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser

Boing Boing: Jailed for using a nonstandard browser
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: