Lynx hackers

From Boing Boing:

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.

You just couldn’t make this stuff up.

Update: from Thomas Bridge via Mike Bristow:

A member of the Irish Linux Users Group actually emailed the Met about the boingboing story. The response he got back was a refusal to comment on the case, but a statement that “I can assure Lynx users we’re not that incompetent”.