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Normally I would appreciate this work but now it’s likely to be used in Chechnya for tractors stolen in Ukraine: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/ukrainia
by mahoro 4y ago
Normally I would appreciate this work but now it’s likely to be used in Chechnya for tractors stolen in Ukraine: https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/ukrainian_tractors_deere/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/02/ukrainian_tractors_de...
- rozenmd 4y agoWait until you hear about Toyota pick-up trucks
- npteljes 4y agoThis even got a paragraph on the Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Use_by_militant_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux#Use_by_militant_g...
- izacus 4y agoAnd? Screwdrivers and Ford cars from Ukraine work in Chechnya as well, what's the issue there exactly? You don't have enough of your life controlled by corporations?
- PostOnce 4y agoWill you also be disappointed to learn that terrorists benefit from penicillin? The fact that a good thing can be used by anyone, including bad people, does not make the thing itself bad. In fact, the greed of the John Deere corporation is the shameful thing here. This antidote to that greed is good.
- judge2020 4y agoI mean, the whole shtick of Find My (iPhone) is that someone can’t use it if they steal it, even if they do a DFU reset to factory settings. This makes it incredibly unattractive for would-be criminals to start stealing iPhones unless they have a way to ship them to China for parts disassembly. If a similar E2E security system existed for the tractors, the aggressors might’ve simply torched them instead of using them to better their own efforts.