On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:40:52 +0200, Charles Mills wrote: >Waaay OT but too strange and wonderful not to share. I am certain that there >are many here who will be fascinated by this. > > http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/08/lorem-ipsum-of-good-evil-google-china/ > Where I read:
“Translate [is] designed to be able to evolve and to learn from crowd-sourced input to reflect adaptations in language use over time,” Kraeh3n said. “Someone out there learned to game that ability and use an obscure piece of text no one in their right mind would ever type in to create totally random alternate meanings that could, potentially, be used to transmit messages covertly.” I'll conjecture, perhaps more plausibly, that "lorem ipsum" is often used as replacement text for redacted sensitive matter, leading Google's Rosetta Stone program to make suggestive guesses. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
