I'm been reading Bruce Schneier for years - he's remarkably on the ball and 
todays post sums up a lot of my impressions of the IoT:

"And they'll cheat smarter. For all of VW's brazenness, its cheating was 
obvious once people knew to look for it. Far cleverer would be to make 
the cheating look like an accident. Overall software quality is so bad 
that products ship with thousands of programming mistakes."

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2015/1015.html

If you've been following the VW scam reports it's pretty clear that making a 
"coding error" to reproduce the same effect would have probably been quite 
trivial and given them deniability - "That's not a feature, that's a bug" or 
vice verca. 

Edmund Cramp
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-- 
'It’s like Mein Kampf - everyone had it, but no one read it’
 - Keith Richards on Mick Jagger’s autobiography.



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