Inappropriate security phrases on Disney Dining site

[twinklebug]

Has anyone noticed some "odd" security phrases being used on the Disney Dining website? Other than the 10 place digits and words we forgot existed, it seems as though there's a jokester amongst disney's IT team that thinks phrases like (and I apologise if stating them here is inapporpriate, but if I don't you know others will say I'm imagining it) "****** helga", "leggiest chick" and "stripper niece" are funny.

They're just not disney.

 

[irishbosoxfan]

Where are you seeing that? I just signed in (as I have everyday since September 2nd We leave in 2 weeks and I still don't have the reservations I want!!) and I've never run into anything like that!

 

[twinklebug]

After you've found a reservation you want to book you need to copy a random security phrase to prove you're a human and not a computer program hacking the site trying to grab all the reservations. Most of the time the phrases are innocent, albeit odd. However, I've been on there enough trying to book and rebook ADRs for two different visits that I've come across some (ahem) great ones - some of which I can't recall - those three just stuck with me.

 

[irishbosoxfan]

After you've found a reservation you want to book you need to copy a random security phrase to prove you're a human and not a computer program hacking the site trying to grab all the reservations. Most of the time the phrases are innocent, albeit odd. However, I've been on there enough trying to book and rebook ADRs for two different visits that I've come across some (ahem) great ones - some of which I can't recall - those three just stuck with me.

Aahhhh gotcha! See that's why I didn't know what you were talking about...you need to find a reservation time you want first!!

 

[Mila78]

...

 

[Tricia1972]

I believe that the phrases are randomly generated, and I am not even sure that Disney created the randomizer. Regardless, if you have an issue with the phrasing, then your best course of action is to contact Disney directly and let them know of the technical glitch with their reservation system. It may be helpful if you also know when you incurred the inappropriate phrasing, so help them narrow down the issue.

I have to be honest though, I have seen quite a few in making reservations for our upcoming trip, and for fun I looked for a dummy reservation and clicked the "Try Again" to get more random phrases, and all of them were completely appropriate (and I looked at about 100 just right now in 2-3 minutes) They were mostly nonsense such as:
Mar routended, McGovern Crocks, Magmson weighs, C-104 embers, and so on. So perhaps Disney has corrected the issue already?


(Also Mila78, I doubt that Disney would give anything free for trauma , I am fairly certain that you are supposed to be 18 to make online reservations, I know you are supposed to be 18 to call)

 

[millerjudi]

I have not gotten any of these phrases, but it makes we want to go make lots of ADRs to see if I can get any of those phrases. I will let you know if I do! I'm not surprised, because it would be really difficult to trace whether such a phrase came up, since they always change, and I could easily see a disgruntled IT employee doing that...

 

[DrRae2B]

How much you wanna bet that someone calls up and demands something for free for being put through the trauma of having to type those phrases?

Yeah, that desperate someone would be me! I think I just may need counseling for it. Very EXPENSIVE counseling, might I add. And a free vacation to help me recoop.

As far as the security phrases go, if I saw one that said ****** Helga, I hate to say it, but I'd have to laugh. Inappropriate, yes, but definitely funny!

 

[DonaldTDuck]

Yeah, that desperate someone would be me! I think I just may need counseling for it. Very EXPENSIVE counseling, might I add. And a free vacation to help me recoop.

As far as the security phrases go, if I saw one that said ****** Helga, I hate to say it, but I'd have to laugh. Inappropriate, yes, but definitely funny!

Not fair. I just keep seeing stars. And I can't think of any 6 letter phrases that fit.

 

[Tricia1972]

Sorry! Just that once the mods stopped giggling we realized that it really wasn't a family friendly phrase and had to take it out.

 

[twinklebug]

I have not gotten any of these phrases, but it makes we want to go make lots of ADRs to see if I can get any of those phrases. I will let you know if I do! I'm not surprised, because it would be really difficult to trace whether such a phrase came up, since they always change, and I could easily see a disgruntled IT employee doing that...

The Helga phrase was the first that really caught me off guard and made me realize this was Disney and not a ticketing website. I honestly considered a screenshot (I'm a programmer and we always ask our testers for screenshots of errors when possible) but simply pressed "try another".

Yeah, that desperate someone would be me! I think I just may need counseling for it. Very EXPENSIVE counseling, might I add. And a free vacation to help me recoop.

As far as the security phrases go, if I saw one that said ****** Helga, I hate to say it, but I'd have to laugh. Inappropriate, yes, but definitely funny!

It was funny, I hate to admit I laughed at it at first.

Not fair. I just keep seeing stars. And I can't think of any 6 letter phrases that fit.

Hehe - see, stalking the Disboards does pay off on occasion. You were about 30 min too late.

 

[twinklebug]

I just went and tried to pull up any of the inappropriate phrases, and was happy after about 50 "try again"s that nothing noteworthy came up. Something tells me either Disney fixed the issue (they are among the folks that stalk the disboards and may have seen this message) -or- those words are out there lying in wait.

If anyone sees anything let us know! (Stressful week at work ... need more giggles)

Tricia1972 Thank you for editing my post. Sorry, I knew the term was bad, just not sure how bad. I'm glad you laughed at it too

 

[PrincessArlena'sDad]

The other day I got "stripper neice"

I thought that was odd, but figured it was just a weird random thing. But, as OP got the SAME phrase...

 

[Cmbar]

Not fair. I just keep seeing stars. And I can't think of any 6 letter phrases that fit.

Mee too! Can you give us the first and last letter??? Kinda like hangman!

 

[Tricia1972]

Mee too! Can you give us the first and last letter??? Kinda like hangman!

I could, but then I'd have to give myself points!

 

[aduck126]

I GOT STRIPPER NIECE TOO!

that was a couple weeks ago though, I thought it was a bit odd.

 

[steve76]

I got "British dandruff". I wasn't sure if I should take offence...!

 

[lark]

I believe that disney uses CAPTCHA or RECAPTCHA, as do most vendors that provide you with a two-word recognition request.

CAPTCHA was developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon, which includes a very brilliant and very young professor whose name I've forgotten. (I think he was about 25 when he helped come up with the idea.)

Disney does not come up with the terms. Basically, when you see two terms, one is known to the computer and the second is computer selected from a very large data base of words that appear in books or newspapers that are being digitized for a variety of purposes. What basically happens is that libraries and other depositories of books and periodicals have very sophisticated technology that allows the books to be optically scanned, translated, and digitized. It's all automated. But the computer will (especially with older texts) come across words it cannot read. It would take a great deal of human effort to isolate all these words and have humans read them and type them into the computer. So, the idea of the Carnegie Mellon guys, was to use the anti-spam process as a means of helping the world be a bit greener and to automate the translation project.

So, when the computer scans a word it cannot read, it kicks it to a database that captcha has access to. It then takes that word and pairs it with another word, usually from the same text, that the computer has identified. The internet user who gets a word verification box types in both words. If the user types in the computer known word correctly (which can be either of the two words), the computer assumes you have also typed the second word correctly. Once enough people have typed the same word, captcha determines the word has been correctly translated, and sends the message back to the automated translator to fill in the blank of the word that initially could not be correctly read.

The idea of captcha was to take something that humans will have to do every day anyway -- vendors want anti-spam measures -- and create something positive out of the 5-10 seconds that humans use to do this. It translates, around the world, to about 150,000 person-hours of work every day, corresponding to the 200 million captchas that are solved every day in all different languages. So, the next time you get annoyed at the difficulty in reading one of the words, or are bothered by the fact that something slightly untoward or unseemly snuck through, just think about the blind person you're helping read Dickens or the tree you're saving.