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Volkswagen's lesson on encryption software

You can’t insist on achieving national security using methods that just aren’t working for any single industry.

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1961 VW ad. Flickr/John Lloyd. Some rights reserved.
1961 VW ad. Flickr/John Lloyd. Some rights reserved.

1961 VW ad. Flickr/John Lloyd. Some rights reserved.

The story of Volkswagen rigging cars with custom software to fool regulators testing for harmful emissions has been all over the news, and with good reason. Quoting Jim Dwyer from the New York Times: