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Luckily their "Hall of Fame" is open for anyone to see. And some of the accounts in there are pretty obvious junk accounts with the usual junk passwords. Would probably take like 5 tries to "brute force" your way in, which given the context of the site would even seem fair game.


I agree that just about nobody would care in spirit.

It should probably at least be explicitly noted by anyone considering doing so: I'm sure that's still super illegal.


.. in the United States


That's fair.

In any case, I should probably write here that I have since tested account creation with another email and received the activation link right away.




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