{"id":8337,"date":"2017-03-24T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8337"},"modified":"2017-04-02T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:08:36","slug":"russians-hacking-american-farmers-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/russians-hacking-american-farmers-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians Hacking American Farmers Sorta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from VICE<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"contributor__link\" title=\"Jason Koebler\" href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/contributor\/jason-koebler\" target=\"_blank\">JASON KOEBLER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KMTZJEYLIwM\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America&#8217;s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that&#8217;s cracked in Eastern Europe and traded on invite-only, paid online forums.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor hacking is growing increasingly popular because John Deere and other manufacturers have made it impossible to perform &#8220;unauthorized&#8221; repair on farm equipment, which farmers see as an attack on their sovereignty and quite possibly an existential threat to their livelihood if their tractor breaks at an inopportune time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When crunch time comes and we break down, chances are we don&#8217;t have time to wait for a dealership employee to show up and fix it,&#8221; Danny Kluthe, a hog farmer in Nebraska, told his state legislature earlier this month. &#8220;Most all the new equipment [requires] a download [to fix].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nightmare scenario, and a fear I heard expressed over and over again in talking with farmers, is that John Deere could remotely shut down a tractor and there wouldn&#8217;t be anything a farmer could do about it.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at VICE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from VICE Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware JASON KOEBLER A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking. To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America&#8217;s heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that&#8217;s cracked in Eastern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}