Data.gov Captchas Get Political
Written by Richard MacManus / December 20, 2009 12:31 AM
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Spotted this evening on the U.S. government's public data web site, Data.gov. A Republican programmer at captcha provider reCAPTCHA having some fun?
Hat-tip ReadWriteWeb's Marketing manager Elyssa Pallai, who stumbled upon this humor gem today.
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LOL!
lool :D :D
Something to do with which party controls the White House and Congress? A disgruntled Web master....
I think the captcha system there is doing something odd with it's word selection recently. I was filling out one on Dvorak.org and it came up with something like "Grouch" and "Crank" for the words. It's almost like it's picking them off of keywords for the website it's on.
I had a screen shot of the thing because I thought it was interesting but I cant' find it.
Haha that's so funny. There are many I have seen too, must remember to screenshot the next one.
Nice one, Richard. Good find, Elyssa. :)
recaptcha words are taken from books they are trying to digitize. It doesn't surprise me that words like these might co-occur in the same work.
shit thread
@Josh Miller: I would've thought that Dvorak's captcha would be more along the lines of "what spam?"