August 05, 2004

Curious, George. I'm sick of registering at news sites and was wondering if there was one particular login name and password that can be used at most sites and is a matter of public knowledge.
posted by pyrrthon1 20 years ago
  • a writer at wired news is suggesting the same thing: "Here's what I propose: Web publishers should get together to set up a one-stop registration process for everybody. We sign up once and would be done with it."
  • Bug Me Not - you can find logins/passwords for most anything you're looking for.
  • A short discussion of bugmenot is found in a discussion here as well.
  • Best of all, there's a Firefox extension that allows you to just right-click and get a login and password.
  • Thanks, mal. I was actually wondering if there weren't *one* userid that everyone was using, but the bugmenot popup is the next best thing.
  • Also good rule of thumb is: Login: slashdot (or slashdot@slashdot.org) pwd: slashdot
  • Besides slashdot, I have used fark, metafilter, as well as ihatespam on some sites with success.
  • A lot of the slashdot or mefi type passwords get deleted every once in a while. Bugmenot is really the best option, I've found. Especially because I use Firefox.
  • Thanks mal! Damn I love me some mozilla.
  • The one I always use: email: kos@dailykos.com pass: dailykos use: dkos pass: dailykos
  • another good one is: login/login I hear some really popular sites use that one...
  • I can fondly remember a time when abc/123 would get you into just about any site on the net...
  • freethepresses@example.com freethepresses cypherpunk cypherpunk cypher cypher admin password (haha) guest guest
  • cypherpunk/cypherpunk and cypher/cypher actually stem from the granddaddy of them all: cypherpunks/cypherpunks (or occasionally, cypherpunks/writecode) This is, as far as I know, the oldest and most canonical example of a public login. It originated on the cypherpunks mailing list, which was home to a lot of privacy and anonymity fanatics starting back in the early 90s. "Cypherpunks write code" was their motto. It's extremely widespread, although on certain sites you'll have to use cypherpunks2 or similar (because either the original cypherpunks login was banned or the password changed). And if you run across a site that's lacking in cypherpunks goodness, why not do us all a favor and register it yourself.
  • My favorite obscure one is laexaminer (@laexaminer.com)/laexaminer. It works on most sites except the LA Times (when they disabled the account) and Washington Post. It goes back to the old LA Examiner blog run by Matt Welch.