Ratial slurs found in code

Trying to figure out how I can cover this one, as this is probably the first time I’ve heard of this.

Yandex is similar to Google. It offers various products and search capability for who they serve.

How someone found ratial issues within code is beyond me, unless it was comments for whomever wrote it and that is how they write.

The article is coming from Cyber Scoop and is titled Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code. Yandex claims it is old code and isn’t in production now, but I am wondering why anyone would care about comments meant for whoever coded it?

Russian tech giant Yandex apologized on Friday for racial slurs uncovered in the company’s source code.

That’s nice, but why apologize when the code apparently isn’t in use in the first place? I know that part of coding is sometimes difficult, where people need to put comments within the code to be able to remember what its used for.

This seems to be a strange one to me, maybe someone can explain this one to us.

According to the Yandex press office, the code in question appears “to be old fragments differing from the current version of the company’s repository and would never have affected any of the company’s services.” The company called the incident a “blatant violation of our corporate ethics” and said it is conducting a review to understand “how this happened” and to take measures to “to ensure this does not happen again.”

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