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August 22, 2005
Nov 13th: Intl. Database Poisoning Day
keywords: database, poison, freedom!
If you've ever heard of Bugmenot, its a service that provides fake logins for those "free registration to view" news sites that try to collect your information just to read the latest on troops dying or Britney Spears's baby. You can donate by creating fake login/pass(s) and submitting them to bugmetnot for everyone to use (a firefox plugin makes grabbing the logins easy). Their service is a protest to the practice of collecting and selling user information for neferious purposes. They are asking you to register at least one fake profile (ie poison a database) on 1 or more of the top news sites: www.nytimes.com, www.washingtonpost.com, www.latimes.com, www.ajc.com, www.chicagotribune.com, www.dallasnews.com, www.nypost.com, www.baltimoresun.com, www.philly.com, www.mercurynews.com on November 13th. The more useless demographics they have the less their data is worth, Screw advertisers! Cept mine to the right ----->
Posted by maddh at August 22, 2005 09:18 AM
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I suggest poisoning www.hotpress.com as well. BugMeNot wasn't successful there. Oh well.
Posted by: Heir_Ick at August 22, 2005 11:21 AM