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Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning
- superchroma 4y ago"Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems." I think this comes as a surprise to no-one who works in industrial software and hardware solutions.
- johnthescott 4y agoamen
- IYasha 4y agoHalf the reason of all the obfuscation, encryption and lockdown :)
- voakbasda 4y agoI wonder how long it will take John Deere’s lawyers to start harassing them. I imagine that they will do everything in their power to preserve their profit moat.
- rmetzler 4y agoWait, aren’t you supposed to distribute the source of your Linux if you sell devices using it? It’s the GPL, isn’t it?
- chasil 4y agoThis has been an issue with Deere and their customer base for some time. https://www.vice.com/en/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware https://www.vice.com/en/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-...