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huhtenberg on July 22, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: OVH Security Incident

It's an ESL issue. He meant to say "in clear" as in "plaintext" rather than "clearly", clearly.

deweerdt on July 23, 2013 [–]

Definitely: the french for plaintext would be "en clair"

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