Sunday, 23 February 2025
Typosquatting in a Volvo
Jonathan M. Gitlin has an entertaining Ars Technica piece on fake Bowers and Wilkins speakers in Chinese Volvos. Worth reading.
An episode of The Simpsons? Fake speakers found in Chinese Volvos.
Bowers and VVilkins? That's not right!
Do you remember The Simpsons episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"? It first aired in February 1996, and it's the one where Homer and Bart go to Appliance Zone and are confronted with "genuine" Panaphonics, Sorny, and Magnetbox TVs. Well, it seems a similar brand name game has been going on at a Volvo dealership in China.
News started filtering out of China last week about an owner of a Volvo S60 sedan who realized the speakers in his car were not from Bowers and Wilkins, as they were supposed to be. Instead, the speakers were branded Bowers and VVilkins, substituting a pair of Vs for the W. We've seen that "typosquatting" approach in malicious emails plenty of times, but it's a first in a Volvo.
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4 comments:
Just checking the slant of my eyes to see if I'm authentic or not.
Probably James - it's the modern world where nobody can be sure of anything.
Sometimes the Chinese do behave like absolute VVankers, though.
Sam - be really careful if you buy a WV car.
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