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Article "Your Professional e-thics might be at Risk!"
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Maria Karra
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Mar 21, 2011

"We translate thousands of words daily using CAT tools. There are tons of programs to aid us during translation that we can choose from. Some of them are open-source, for others we have to pay and there are some which are offered on a subscription basis. However, we are now faced with a new type of utility which has been presented to us as the answer to all our problems, for both customers and service providers alike: The Cloud."
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"We translate thousands of words daily using CAT tools. There are tons of programs to aid us during translation that we can choose from. Some of them are open-source, for others we have to pay and there are some which are offered on a subscription basis. However, we are now faced with a new type of utility which has been presented to us as the answer to all our problems, for both customers and service providers alike: The Cloud."
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imatahan
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Brazil
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Obvious Mar 22, 2011

There's no strict privacy at internet and least in a CAT tool online.

I've refused a job last month because they wanted it made in a cat tool and I was using Wordfast online. The documents were strictly confidential, so there was no way of keeping them as so.
 


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