{"id":144645,"date":"2022-08-23T13:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/liberate-the-tractors-the-right-to-repair-movement-thats-regaining-control-of-our-devices"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:25:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:25:22","slug":"liberate-the-tractors-the-right-to-repair-movement-thats-regaining-control-of-our-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/liberate-the-tractors-the-right-to-repair-movement-thats-regaining-control-of-our-devices","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Liberate the tractors\u2019: The right to repair movement that\u2019s regaining control of our devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7aYJPonRJd8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The software that runs John Deere tractors was successfully \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/resource-center\/definitions\/what-is-jailbreaking\">jailbroken<\/a>\u201d at this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/defcon.org\/\">DEF CON<\/a> hacker convention, enabling farmers to repair or retune their equipment without engaging with the company that sold them their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The hacker involved, who calls himself Sick Codes, was responding directly to U.S. farmers\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2020-03-05\/farmers-fight-john-deere-over-who-gets-to-fix-an-800-000-tractor\">long-standing concerns<\/a> that their \u201csmart\u201d tractors are run on software that only John Deere can access to repair. Smart tractors, including those manufactured by John Deere, are also <a href=\"https:\/\/aea.uk.com\/industry-insight\/tractor-statistics\/\">widely used<\/a> in the U.K.<\/p>\n<p>Sick Codes\u2019 jailbreak was undertaken to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/john-deere-tractor-jailbreak-defcon-2022\/\">liberate the tractors<\/a>,\u201d he said. John Deere responded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/john-deere-tractor-jailbreak-defcon-2022\/\">statement to Wired magazine<\/a> that it works closely with cybersecurity partners and also \u201cembraces the broader ethical hacking community\u201d to ensure its security capabilities remain industry-leading. In March 2022, the manufacturer responded to pressure from farmers with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deere.com\/en\/news\/all-news\/john-deere-expands-access-to-self-repair-resources\/\">announcement<\/a> that it would make more of its software repair tools available to customers and mechanics from next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The software that runs John Deere tractors was successfully \u201cjailbroken\u201d at this year\u2019s DEF CON hacker convention, enabling farmers to repair or retune their equipment without engaging with the company that sold them their vehicles. The hacker involved, who calls himself Sick Codes, was responding directly to U.S. farmers\u2019 long-standing concerns that their \u201csmart\u201d tractors [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}