A New Jailbreak for John Deere Tractors Rides the Right-to-Repair Wave

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6. Chechens who looted the top of the line, GPS enabled equipment from Ukraine

will just love this libertarian claptrap if it manages to come true before those fancy machines rust solid.

The truth is that these things aren't bought by Mom and Pop farms, they're for big agribusiness spreads. They're largely autonomous, meaning somebody with a monitor screen miles away keeps an eye on several at a time, nobody's sitting in an uncomfortable seat in the hot sun and driving them, which is controlling your own equipment.

Is this stuff over complicated and over proprietary? Oh, yeah, definitely. Are a bunch of hackers going to fix that? My guess is that they'll cause more problems than they solve. I would also guess the main lockout people are looking to override is the one that happens if the machine is stolen or if somebody misses a payment.