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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by ktta on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:13PM (#14069074)
Not really. The GP is implying that they are Russian with this

>since they can't just say "I work for Russia and we're reminding America that they're not invulnerable."

But the person who replied is saying how the grammatical obfuscation doesn't look like something that's done by a Russian but by an English speaker who is trying to sound like a Russian with bad English. Because a Russian with bad English wouldn't make those mistakes.

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by throwaway71958 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:28PM (#14069136)
To my ear, this obfuscation sounds Middle Eastern, due to the frequent use of "-ing" in verbs whether it belongs there or not. I know an Iranian guy who does this a lot.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by diminoten on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:08PM (#14069323)
The whole point is to feed it through translation services dozens of times until the meaning remains but the actual word selection is super poor and completely unidentifiable.

It's weird to me that you're trying to push this to blame another group so quickly, especially with an 8 day old account.

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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by mirimir on Saturday April 08, 2017 @06:22PM (#14069387)
Yes, that's what I do sometimes, using offline apps with local dictionaries.
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Re:Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal ... by benwilber0 on Saturday April 08, 2017 @05:26PM (#14069127)
> I work for Russia ...

does not imply it was done by a Russian.

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