{"id":405,"date":"2008-05-07T08:05:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2008-04-11T10:17:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T14:17:20","slug":"hacking-the-ubermind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Ubermind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t precisely SF-related unless you want to explore the whole somebody-tracking-your-every-move thing (which is a <EM>whole<\/EM> &#8216;nother post), but it&#8217;s such an insanely useful little link that I feel the need to showcase it.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">Bugmenot<\/A> is a repository of usernames and passwords for sites that require registration.  Want to view a story on the NY Times site without filling out a lengthy registration form?  Not terribly comfortable forking over your personal information to yet another marketing drone?  Check Bugmenot to see if someone else has already registered for that site (using fake information, of course) and listed a working username and password.<\/p>\n<p>The site also offers free, disposable e-mail addresses for sites that insist on e-mailing you your login information.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Lest I be accused of promoting anarchy on the Web, let me note that I administer several sites (blogs, message boards) that get hit by spammers daily, most of them using fake e-mail addresses.  I hate spam with the white-hot fury of a thousand suns.  But I also hate having to fill out a lengthy form when I&#8217;m trying to read an article, and I particularly hate answering marketing questions.  That&#8217;s why I give cashiers a CA zip code when they want my zip, refuse to give them my phone number, and think Bugmenot is a splendid idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t precisely SF-related unless you want to explore the whole somebody-tracking-your-every-move thing (which is a whole &#8216;nother post), but it&#8217;s such an insanely useful little link that I feel the need to showcase it. Bugmenot is a repository of usernames and passwords for sites that require registration. Want to view a story on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}