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Turning Up The Heat On On-Line Registration

Posted by timothy on from the it's-easy-and-it's-required dept.

Saeed al-Sahaf writes "CNN is running a story on the growing number of print newspapers with on-line editions that are requiring registration. Apparently there are some folks out there who don't like this 'feature'! I found a few things interesting about the story: Privacy groups say it's a dangerous practice and promotes spam; I didn't realize people put real personal info into these things (110-year-old surgeons from Bulgaria named Mickey Mouse). About 15 to 20 percent of the registrations for the Philadelphia Inquirer turned out to be bogus, a figure that was much lower than I would have thought. Also mentioned in the story is a web site called BugMeNot.com, which lists 'communal' logins and passwords for on-line newspapers."

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  1. yafp4tj by etcremote · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yet another fp for the the jihad

  2. registering is dumb by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    like file(wait in line)planet.For all you battlefiled players out there
    ftp://largedownloads.ea.com/pub/patches/

  3. Censorship at its worst! by horase_porn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why is slashdot preventing paradise.net.nz users from anonymous posing. they are through one proxy.

  4. Mediocrity says... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nine million, four hundred twenty-eight thousand, sixty-fourth post!