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Submission + - New York Times Struggles With Paywall Attacks (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by RedEaredSlider on Monday March 28, 2011 @01:41PM

RedEaredSlider writes: With The New York Times' controversial paywall set to go live this afternoon at 2 p.m., discussion of the move has made the natural transition to methods of bypassing it.

As expected, a number of loopholes and hacks have appeared. One of the more notorious methods appeared almost instantly. Using a Twitter account named @FreeNYT, an anonymous user aggregated every article the newspaper posted the Twitter. The site caught The Times' notice and before long, The Times requested that Twitter suspend the account, arguing that it violated its trademark.

Another loophole uses four lines of CSS and JavaScript. Canadian developer David Hayes managed to strip the Time's website of any mention of digital subscriptions in addition to getting past the paywall. The hack was released in the form of NYTClean, a bookmark easily installed in web browsers.

Comment More venues that serve similar purposes (Score 1) 2

by afurnas on Monday February 28, 2011 @12:32AM (#35335330) Attached to: Where have all the comments gone?

Now people use twitter to aggregate their news, and can discuss things there as well. Or people want more anarchic communities and congregate towards Reddit or similar. The Slashdot niche is being crowded out, I think.

Submission + - GMail Accidentally Resets 150 000 Accounts (engadget.com) 2

Submitted by tsj5j on Sunday February 27, 2011 @11:52PM

tsj5j writes: Many users have reported loss of their GMail accounts, as they signed in to find their email accounts reset — losing years of email history. This appears to be a result of a bug which treats existing owners as new users. For those affected, Google is currently trying to resolve the problem. For the rest of us, perhaps this is a timely reminder to backup our data and be less trusting of the cloud.

Comment Its a Trap! (Score 1) 6

by afurnas on Sunday February 27, 2011 @06:28PM (#35333274) Attached to: Bill Calls for Illegals to Be Dumped at Offices of Congressmen

So essentially what happens is that it is then clear whether the Senators and Representatives are turning the illegal immigrants in? If all of those who are "dropped off" don't show up in ICE records, then it is clear that the politicians turned a blind eye towards a violation of immigration law. They are then, presumably, labeled as "soft on immigration" and run out of town. Sneaky and evil. Also a gross miscarriage of justice, and damagingly distorting to the political process.

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