Bug Me Not gets attitude 0
So I recently posted a link to <a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/">Bug Me Not</a>, a site that will provide you with logins and passwords for many websites requiring useless registration to enter. "Useless" is of course subjective but so is "kiss my ass", eh.
Anyway, I had read their <a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/faq.php">FAQ</a> (which I recommend; "Q: Is it ethically justifiable to do this? A: You'll have to find your own way there my friend.") and I just read their terms of use (which I don't recommend). But this–this was unanticipated: they now have a <a href="http://www.bugmenot.com/register.php">registration page for people who require registration</a>!
The page begins with this preamble:
"If you are an employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of <em>any site which enforces compulsory user registration</em> then we require you to complete our registration process. It costs nothing to register and will only take a moment."
Question gems include the following:
<em>Do you completely trust your personal information to all these sites?
Do you consider privacy a commodity?
If so, what worth (in US dollars) would you place on your own privacy
Explain how we can verify the information you enter in this form is correct
How many sexual partners have you had in your life
How many times per week do you masturbate
List the email addresses of three of your friends or family members most likely to buy Viagra over the internet:</em>
The page concludes with this request:
"Time to fight fire with fire- if you run a website then please consider placing the following snippet in your Terms Of Use:
<em>Any subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, or employees of any site employing compulsory user registration mechanisms are not authorized to access the content or services of this site.</em>
Pass it on."
Now if that ain't part genius, I don't know what is.