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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by msane on Monday August 15, 2016 @11:12PM (#12295296)
There are a few phrases which suggest perfectly fluent english, such as "can do with files as they please".

If anything stands out from the writing to me it's that it sounds like a scam.

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Re:Lifting the Shadows of the NSA’s Equation Group by kafkaesq on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @02:23PM (#12299437)
That's the thing with partial fluency -- and really now, their English is quite good (much better than our proficiency in their native languages) -- that it will be peppered with many idiomatic phrases ("can do with X as they please") while other parts remain comically broken. Like, you know, Google Translate.

BTW, it should be "the files".

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