[cyber]

"""One of the terrorists pulled out a laptop, propping it open against the wall, said the 40-year-old woman. When the laptop powered on, she saw a line of gibberish across the screen: “It was bizarre — he was looking at a bunch of lines, like lines of code. There was no image, no Internet,” she said. Her description matches the look of certain encryption software, which ISIS claims to have used during the Paris attacks. """

Possible explanations: 1. POST 2. Linux 3. Elm/Pine/Mutt

There are enough hints in her description that the woman they talked to would be 100% content with an OS that booted directly to the browser, and furthermore, she wouldn't know the difference.