Racial slur appears in CAPTCHA code for Georgia state COVID-19 website

Kyle

ULTRA-F###ING-MAGA!
PREMO Member
... sparks investigation.

A racial slur that appeared in the CAPTCHA code on a Georgia Department of Public Health website has sparked an investigation by officials and Microsoft.

The slur was flagged by Twitter user @DanieEve, who tweeted a photo of the CAPTCHA code, which is used to determine whether a human or a bot is entering information on the site. @DanieEve tagged the Georgia Department of Public Health in the tweet.





Aren't CAPTCHAs random?

If so, does that mean the computer was racist?
 

limblips

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What was the slur? Was it another common word that has suddenly become racist? Like Whitening Toothpaste"?
 

herb749

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If it comes from Microsoft its their fault. Is this person trying to blame the state, perhaps for $$$ .?

Time to cancel Microsoft.
 

Yooper

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From what I could find out on the interwebs (the tweet is no longer available; hmm?) it appears that the offensive word was a random letter/number combo that looked like the N-word. In other words, a vanity license plate sort of thing (e.g., GR8 = "great).

Certainly an oops, but no more. The "scandal" (if we can even call it that) is a sign of these crazy times. In more responsible days, folks stumbling upon stuff like this would act like adults and let the "offending" party know what happened (especially since this was a "one-off"; it being a random generator sort of thing as both @Kyle & @stgislander noted).

But we no longer live in those more responsible days; these days folks have to immediately go into broadcast mode for whatever reason; no doubt for both virtue signaling cred points and to get one's 15 minutes of fame.

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