h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK, I do believe it but are BT and the Metropolitan Police's Computer Crime Unit really this stupid
I assume you all remember the story about how somebody was nicked for trying to hack the Disasters and Emergency Committee Tsunami fund website.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/england/london/4195339.stm
Well it turns out (or at least claimed) that the reason police broke down a donor's door and arrested him was that he was using the Lynx browser (a text-based browser used by the blind, *nix-users and others).

See article at http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/27/jailed_for_using_a_n.html for more info.

I read that, it's to do with the links2 browser using the browser id "Lynx (hacked)" which is a little silly.

but should the sysadmin be allowed to continue his job? should not he have been TRAINED?

That is downright bizzare

If true, I just find the level of stupidity involved mindboggling

posted using Elinks (which is a hacked version of Links )

more comment over at http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/online/archives/lunatic_tendencies/2005/01/jailed_for_using_a_nonstandard_browser_.html

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,39020369,39226979,00.htm
Daniel Cuthbert was convicted under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39236752,00.htm
but he got a new job working for a computer security firm.