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Bozeman wants to know

2009-06-19 19:57:06.017483+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

City of Bozeman Montana asks job applicants to provide their web site user names and passwords. Hypercrit has a roundup of media coverage.

Were I near Bozeman, I'd be highly tempted to create some accounts, put some basic stuff in them, deliver them and their passwords on the job application while simultaneously publishing the names and passwords on something like 4chan /b/: as the inevitable mess occurs, then ask the city to prove that it wasn't responsible for the desecration of my public presence.

[ related topics: Privacy Journalism and Media Heinlein ]

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