Does Jorn's

July 9, 2000 11:33 PM

Does Jorn's workaround for the NYTimes still work? I tried http://partners.nytimes.com/library/financial/personal/070900personal-napster.html only to find myself directed to a login page. Has The Man finally got wise?
posted by Neale (12 comments total)

I don't know if The Man got wise, but the Old Grey Lady sure did. The "partners" links stopped working a couple of weeks ago.
posted by bradlands at 12:37 AM on July 10, 2000

Try http://www10.nytimes.com/ instead. I can't do a valid test because I've registered, but I read on /. that it still works.
posted by syrynx at 1:37 AM on July 10, 2000

Try http://www10.nytimes.com/library/financial/personal/070900personal-napster.html
posted by owillis at 1:38 AM on July 10, 2000

that was bizarre! :)
posted by owillis at 1:38 AM on July 10, 2000

I can confirm that www10 works, as I have not logged in and can still see it.

Thanks brad, syrynx, owillis.
posted by Neale at 4:07 AM on July 10, 2000

I'm sure that someone will ultimately kill me for this ..

I'm don't know who started it, but the account "cipherpunk" is a fairly well-known username and password combination for free/registration sites like the NY Times. The policy for using the account follows.

1. You may use "cipherpunk" (pass: cipherpunk).
2. If you frequently use the account and come across a service which doesn't have the account, create it.

posted by chrish at 5:20 AM on July 10, 2000

I generally avoid The New York Times Online on general principle. Why give them hits when equal or superior journalism is available elsewhere on the 'Net?
posted by ZachsMind at 6:15 AM on July 10, 2000

...by places which don't insist you jump hoops just to read the latest headlines?
posted by ZachsMind at 6:21 AM on July 10, 2000

zach: can you list those places (of superior journalism)?
posted by greyscale at 11:17 AM on July 10, 2000

Fox news? heh.
posted by john at 2:55 PM on July 10, 2000

It should usually be spelled

username: cypherpunk
password: cypherpunk

It's amazing how many websites this works for. If it gets deleted somebody always seems to recreate it.

Then again, I've never been truly concerned about the Old Grey Lady knowing of my secret passion for the columns of William Safire. They'll never know that I read him with my pants off....

(and Zach, say what you will about the Times well known biases, but there is hardly better journalism elsewhere on the planet.)
posted by dhartung at 11:00 PM on July 10, 2000

say what you will about the Times well known biases, but there is hardly better journalism elsewhere on the planet.
i don't know... given the Times' well known biases, less well known violations of ethics, and general function as a mouthpiece for the elite, that's not saying a whole lot.
posted by sudama at 10:02 PM on July 11, 2000