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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by pvorb on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:18PM (#18068319)
I bet VW won't sue anyone about this soon to not have new negative publicity. And I agree, this is clearly satire.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by pvorb on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:28PM (#18068430)
Satirical software would be a cool new trend in Open Source.

I think about things like a library for leader election, where there is a "Russian hacker" service that manipulates the election result or maybe a logging framework that accumulates logs and occassionally emails them to journalists.

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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by pvorb on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:55PM (#18069321)
https://www.jollycode.org/, mentioned in another comment, is exactly what I was looking for.
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by pc86 on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:36PM (#18068533)
I bet nobody from VW is going to know this exists for a year or more, if ever. How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN?
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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by InternetOfStuff on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:41PM (#18068584)
> How many VW corporate employees do you think browse HN?

Out of more than 600'000? A bunch, I bet.

(Yes, I was shocked at the number too)

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Re:Volkswagen – detects when your tests are run in a CI serv... by mhh__ on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:29PM (#18070226)
VW, presumably, has armies of software engineers/other technical people (That you might find on HN, etc) so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume someone will stumble across it.

It's also worth saying that even if they don't have a automated system to look for x-infringement, they have many employees who when bored could end up searching for (say) Volkswagen on github.

Whether they care or not is another matter...

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