The Washington Monthly
More newspapers are requiring registration; it's becoming a real annoyance. It turns out there's a longstanding solution -- a "public" identity.
un: cyberpunk
pw: cyberpunk
The thread I link to (above) claims this is an old net tradition; that for years the net equivalent of Kilroy has been cyberpunk.
I just tested it for the LA Times. It works. Alas, it provokes some interesting responses from Hotmail and Yahoo suggesting they invalidated this one a while ago.
Eventually this un/pw will become invalid. But others will take its place.
I don't recommend using this approach -- it is certainly dishonest and arguably it's a form of theft. On the other hand ...
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