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Activist-Comedian Interrupts VW Exec's Geneva Presentation to Install "Cheat Box"

posted by takyon on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the defeat-device dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Common Dreams reports:

In a slick protest and righteous reminder that Volkswagen has yet to leave behind its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, British activist and comedian Simon Brodkin sabotaged a VW presentation at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday. As marketing chief Juergen Stackmann sang the praises of their new electrically powered Up! models, Brodkin ambled [1] onto the stage in VW-branded overalls, wielding a wrench and prop [labeled] "cheat box", and began climbing under the car to "fix it". "It's okay, I have the new cheat box", he calmly explained to the bewildered Stackmann. "No one's going to find out about this one."

[...] As Stackmann tried to haul him out from under the car--"It doesn't need a repair, it's a perfect car"--Brodkin referenced VW's [lying, disgraced] CEO with, "Mr. Müller says it's okay as long as no one finds out."

[1] Content is behind scripts. archive.is clears up that nuisance.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by logan on Thursday March 03 2016, @04:04PM

    by logan (3020) on Thursday March 03 2016, @04:04PM (#313149)

    When trying to open the archive.is link from TFS, Chrome shows a "The site ahead contains malware" alert. As pointed out by anubi above, the video is on Youtube [youtube.com].

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2016, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 03 2016, @04:15PM (#313154)

    Archive.is is used by some malware people to get around blocks or archive malware sites. Those alerts pop up from time to time on there, like they do with archive.org and url shorteners. The difference seems to be that Google blocks the whole domain when it reaches a certain number, rather than reporting individual urls to the service and blacklisting those, like they do for bigger services.