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2024 - A CrowdStrike employee was pressured to push an update straight to prod. 90% of Windows installations were taken offline, but executives dodged any responsibility, and even got the shareholder lawsuit dismissed. Angry shareholders might have been told to blame the employee.

2015 - Volkswagen executives came up with "a rogue engineer" managed to make every VW diesel in the US violate emissions standards, while faking it during emissions testing.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/volkswagen-pulls...

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