[pwdisswordfish]

> the recruiter had a list of keywords, received a large volume of inbound resumes and filtered for == 'UNIX' and dumped everything else

To be fair, I wouldn't expect this kind of 'recruiting by grep' to happen at Facebook of all places either.

[pwdisswordfish]

OT, did you actually embed your password in the username to enable random users share it?

[mungoid]

Initially I actually thought his working directory was swordfish.. I'd make a terrible hacker.

[pwdisswordfish]

Apparently they did...

[provost]

Interesting... Is it a social experiment?

[pwdisswordfish]

RMS did something similar way back in his days http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch07.html

[weinzierl]

Deniability? Make your password public, stop being responsible for your postings.

[pwdisswordfish]

I, pwdisswordfish, accept all responsibility for all of my posts, past, present, and future.

[verbify]

Ironically, you could always claim that acceptance of responsibility was written by someone else (and perhaps it was).

[pwdisswordfish]

Yep

[fulldecent]

FYI, here is more analysis on the reality of "recruiting by grep". https://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2010/10/classic-and-modern-j...

Under the section Keyword Stuffing.

[avip]

Can I use your user to upvote all my comments?

[pwdisswordfish]

That would be an interesting result to the experiment.

[avip]

Well I see someone already changed your pwd, which is another expected result of the experiment :)

[pwdisswordfish2]

Not a very interesting one though.

[pwdisswordfish]

We meet again.

[exikyut]

To whoever has changed this account's password, can you be nice and change it back? I wanted to play in this experiment too. :(

[subcosmos]

They are using greedy matching ;)