It won&#x27;t be long before their email servers are going to be impounded. I assume they&#x27;ve long since been scrubbed of evidence but then there are the backups. It&#x27;s going to be very tough to keep that house of cards standing if it isn&#x27;t grounded in fact.<p>Personally I wouldn&#x27;t write a line of code like that even when authorized by management, I&#x27;d rather resign (but then again that&#x27;s a argued from a position of relative luxury), but I hope that German programmers working for VW or Bosch would want to see some very explicit authorization that this is exactly what it is they are supposed to make with a note to the effect that they believe this is not legal or ethical or both.<p>If not they may very well end up holding the bag, I have no doubt that this thing will be researched to the bottom.