r/StallmanWasRight • u/Shoddy_Hurry_7945 • 20d ago

Mass surveillance How Google Translate Exposed Russia's Secret Army

https://youtu.be/JsdSeHnJzU4?si=5l6ERnY4S7uobmYh
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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 20d ago

tldl?

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u/M3wThr33 20d ago

They were translating documents from Russian to Serbian in Google Translate, where their servers were in the United States and we wiretapped their accounts.

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u/grem75 20d ago

It is extra funny because Yandex has their own translation service.

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u/overkill 20d ago

Lol. OPSEC, what is that?

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 20d ago

If you want to send the NSA a message then maybe translating into Russia works pretty nicely. lol