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.

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 :(

I use Lynx regularly, all my previous posts today were made with it. It identifies itself perfectly OK as KS can confirm by checking the server logs here. I have to admit to more than a little suspicion about the alleged victim's version of events. Given the choice between the server admin's story (who is EXTREMELY unlikely to have the authority to call in the cops without consulting higher powers) and the alleged victim's version, I know which one I find more credible.