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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:42:39 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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   • Sarah Jay Peper 🏳️‍⚧️

   @jay_peper @alilly I would argue that "hackers hacked <Some Service>" is effectively a thinly veiled passive voice anyway.

   The "hackers" are, after all, implied. Nobody *actually* knows anything about them – beyond the fact that if there was a compromise, there "had to" necessarily be some "hackers" involved.

   I've seen someone actually claim the above with a straight face when asked why they added "hackers" to a news item about a statement that did not include that term…

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     Sarah Jay Peper 🏳️‍⚧️ (jay_peper@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Nov-2024 06:42:41 JST Sarah Jay Peper 🏳️‍⚧️

     • Alexandra-Lilith

     @alilly @rysiek the media usually likes the passive voice when it comes to car crashes