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[graycrow]

Житель Лондона был арестован за использование lynx.

 

Jailed for using Lynx

 

p2pnet.net News:- A 28-year-old man from east London in Britain has been arrested and released on bail in connection with a bid to hack into the Disasters and Emergency Committee (DEC) site set up after the Asian tsunami, says the BBC.

 

Nasty. Who’d do such a thing?

 

"Chief executive Brendan Gormley reassured the public that 'every penny' donated over the internet was safe and had reached the DEC," says the Beeb..

 

A boing boing post tells a different story, however.

 

“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,” says the post, going on:

 

“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 style 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 “

 

http://p2pnet.net/story/3680

[KOTRPA]

Идиоты.

посканировать их что-ли

[lovermann]

Я тут где-то на форуме постил перевод текста с сайта про родителей, которые должны бдительно следить за тем, чем занимается их чадо. Так вот это -- из той же серии, только уровень -- не одна семья, а государство. И тем более, это УК, а не Пиндосия.