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Obsolete software from 1990s features in Brexit deal text

   Descriptions of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as ‘modern’
   leads to questions over whether text was copied and pasted
   EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier holds the Brexit Trade deal
   document.
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   EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier holds the Brexit trade deal
   document. A section on encryption technology appears to contain chunks
   of text from previous documents. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA
   EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier holds the Brexit trade deal
   document. A section on encryption technology appears to contain chunks
   of text from previous documents. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA
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   The EU-UK Brexit deal refers to defunct decades-old computer software
   such as Netscape Communicator as “modern”, raising suspicions that some
   of the text may have been copied and pasted in.
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   Separately, the UK announced on Tuesday that it had signed a free trade
   deal with Turkey, its first since agreeing a Brexit deal to leave the
   EU.

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   little time for members of parliament and others to scrutinise it.
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