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by blauwbilgorgel 4318 days ago
I remembered a discussion about this before, once in 2010 and once in 2013. Already in 2010 Lorum Ipsum was translated to random words that are very prevalent on the internet: "hello world", "learn more" and "free on": http://www.xefer.com/2010/10/lorem-ipsum

Therefor I don't think that Google Translate is used by spies to communicate plans about China. Even if all translated words were insidious, then still Occam's Razor tells us it is unlikely that a public translating service is used as a modern-day number station.

The 2013 discussion had translations like: "Cisco Security" and "Corporate Japan": http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/lorem-ipsum-google-...

That's statistical machine translation for you.