[MagicAndi]

Agreed. As someone who follows Terence's blog, I was surprised and disappointed to read about this nonsense. It certainly screams entitlement.

[hombre_fatal]

I thought it was a great breakdown of how trivial this process is on various services and that it actually works.

A lot of these seem like security nightmares. I'm glad someone did the research at this small expense.

These comments are barking up the wrong tree. Nobody here is lambasting these companies for having such horrifying policies that ensure anyone targeting you is basically guaranteed to snatch up your username.