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		CGamesPlay 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers It's really difficult to not assume malice with something like this. From the maintainer: > The stardict has "Scan" function, when user enable this function, after user select some text, it will trigger stardict do translate for this selected text... Why the user selects some confidential data to query dictionary?

netsharc 5 months ago [–]

Would be funny if they couldn't tell that the text in a foreign language is confidential... maybe it's stamped "秘密".

"Sir, we have intel, the enemy is having translation server errors."

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