BugMeNot

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For many years already, the following username/password pairs have been used for this purpose. It's a convention that originated from the Cypherpunks mailing list.

• ("cypherpunks" "writecode")
• ("cpunks" "writecode")
• ("cypherpunks" "cypherpunks")
• ("cypherpunks" "cpunks")
• ("cpunks" "cpunks")

I just tried one of the above on the Times site (assuming I went to the one you did) and it works.

(Supposedly, Cypherpunks write code. And for sure, Crackerpunks read code. Or more likely, write code that reads code.)