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Thursday, February 03, 2005

Hacking The DEC

I was reading the Times' internet section, which is incidentally rather poor and I came across this ridiculous news story.

"A man was arrested on suspicion of trying to hack into the Disasters Emergency committee website (if you haven't been listening/watching the news this is the organization who handle British Tsunami appeal donations). He was picked up after a BT technician noticed unusual activities and requests on the site. However after further investigation it turned out that he was only trying to make a donation using Lynx web browser, which is a text based browser often used by visually impaired people. Not trying to divert the millions of pounds of donations the British public have given, to his own bank account."


So if you want to be mistaken for hacker, when all you are trying to do is make a donation to the Tsunami appeal, get lynx web browser. However if you want a proper web browser that isn't IE then GET FIREFOX!