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Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by ramraj07 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @04:15AM (#46442615)
This is no different, and frankly far less alarming to me, than Uber's project greyball from 2017, which should have tanked a company in a just world. I suppose some companies just promulgate a culture where its acceptable or even lauded to evade law and contracts: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...
Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by ferfumarma on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:27AM (#46442977)
You are right, but it's just a whataboutism argument, isn't it? There are lots of other evils by other businesses; why are they relevant here?
Re:Honey's Dieselgate: Detecting and tricking testers by ramraj07 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:51AM (#46443098)
This comment was replying to someone asking "how could engineers possibly write such malicious code" so a more glaring example from a more mainstream company seemed quite appropriate.