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		<title>City in Montana Demands Your Login Details to be Hired</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>Somehow, a city in Montana thought it would be a good idea to ask people for the usernames and passwords to their private web accounts as part of their job application.</p>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/city-to-job-applicants-facebook-myspace-log-ins-please.ars">This is so wrong, I barely know what to say</a>. I sure hope this trend doesn't start to catch on, because a lot of people would give up the information when they're pressured instead of doing the right thing and refusing.</p>

<blockquote>"Please list any and all, current personal or business websites, web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc." the form reads. But Bozeman isn't simply interested in finding out where to look for potentially embarrassing personal details; the city wants full disclosure, since the form demands username and password information for each.</blockquote>

<p>This is way worse than all those sickening <a id=link0 href='http://www.thegeekprofessor.com/guides/email/email-passwords/'  onmouseover="jtagsPopOnAttach('link0','link_pop0','','');"  onmouseout="jtagsPopOff();"  target=_self>social networking sites asking for your e-mail address password</a>.</p>

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<h3>Update</h3>
Here is the <a href="http://www.bozeman.net/bozeman/humanResource/contacts.aspx">contact information for the relevant people in the city</a> if you want to ask them why they thought this would be a good idea.

And just in case someone were to change the form, here's a copy of the original found on their website:

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