Long time readers will have followed the twists and turns of the John Deere repair saga, in which the agricultural machinery manufacturer has used DRM to restrict the repair of its tractors. It may be ...
Yahoo: The Tractor Repair Scam: John Deere’s Digital Lockdown and the Farmers Who Hacked It
Owning a $500,000 tractor doesn’t mean you can fix it. Welcome to John Deere’s digital nightmare, where farmers resort to Ukrainian hackers just to repair equipment they legally own. This isn’t ...
The Tractor Repair Scam: John Deere’s Digital Lockdown and the Farmers Who Hacked It
Courthouse News Service: John Deere accused of monopolizing tractor repair industry in antitrust suit
CHICAGO (CN) — John Deere is illegally monopolizing the U.S. tractor repair industry, according to a class action antitrust lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court on Wednesday. The suit alleges that, ...
WASHINGTON — Owners of John Deere tractors and other farming equipment in the U.S. will now be able to repair their own equipment, under an accord reached between the American Farm Bureau Federation ...
MSN: The Tractor Repair Scam: John Deere's Digital Lockdown and the Farmers Who Hacked It
The Tractor Repair Scam: John Deere's Digital Lockdown and the Farmers Who Hacked It
AgWeb: Right To Repair Granted? John Deere Launches Digital Self-Repair Tool for $195 Per Tractor
Right To Repair Granted? John Deere Launches Digital Self-Repair Tool for $195 Per Tractor
A hacker named Sick Codes has demonstrated a way to jailbreak John Deere tractors, which could allow farmers the opportunity to self-repair their equipment. When you think of technological innovations ...