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Well.. actually it is the private company which wrote the code for the website FOR the government (contract work)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/ ... 4754.shtml

(AP) It's a shameless thing to do in an economic crisis.

Jobless people seeking information about their benefits on the Brazilian Labor Ministry's Web site were forced to type in passwords such as \"bum\" and \"shameless.\"

Labor Minister Carlos Lupi is apologizing for the situation — and he blames a private company that created the site's security system.

Lupi isn't naming the company, but says its contract with the ministry wasn't being renewed, which may have prompted the pranks.

The insults were discovered after an irate user wrote to the O Globo newspaper about it. The site was temporarily taken down. But by late last week, it was up and running — without the insulting words.

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So.... What other website has a "force system" that mocks people?

There used to be a bank in the US (Washington Mutual, before they failed), who made the mistake of telling the guy that recorded the voice prompt system that he was being let go and then asking him to set up a new recording system. You were supposed to be able to say "customer service" in order to get in touch with a customer service rep; but he had set it up so the only words that would get you in touch with a CS rep without going through the giant phone tree were [spoiler:21qj0b1m]shit, fuck, fucking, god, damn, and asshole[/spoiler:21qj0b1m]. It didn't last long, maybe a couple of hours, and I only know about it because I was working there at the time. To this day I don't think I've ever seen a VP run as fast as ours did...

Also, there used to be a financial management company (can't remember which) that had a horrendously long phone tree system, using 8 different options plus you could press 0 to speak to the operator. Apparently they just couldn't handle having one button go un-used so they added the option "Press 7 to hear a duck quack." If you pressed 7, you heard a duck quack and then got disconnected.

Gared said:

Also, there used to be a financial management company (can't remember which) that had a horrendously long phone tree system, using 8 different options plus you could press 0 to speak to the operator. Apparently they just couldn't handle having one button go un-used so they added the option "Press 7 to hear a duck quack." If you pressed 7, you heard a duck quack and then got disconnected.

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That's EPIC.

Gared said:

he had set it up so the only words that would get you in touch with a CS rep without going through the giant phone tree were [spoiler:2zl6n8sv]shit, fuck, fucking, god, damn, and asshole[/spoiler:2zl6n8sv].

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If all CS systems worked this way I'd get to a rep within seconds.

Gared said:

they added the option "Press 7 to hear a duck quack." If you pressed 7, you heard a duck quack and then got disconnected.

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Random.

I remember someone giving me the number for the duck quack, so I'd be willing to confirm it existed....but damn if I can't remember at all any further details than it sounding familiar....

Google doesn't fail me!!!
http://everything2.com/title/If%2520you ... ress%25207

(alas, the post is from 2000, and, as is mentioned, the number is now "TD Ameritrade" and no longer offers a duck)

And some history on the duck:
https://secure-nt6.american-data.net/pu ... OfFame.asp