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at 2021's DEF CON 29 in which he attributed his interest in exploring agricultural equipment to the fact that no one else was doing so.
But after disclosing a number of vulnerabilities, John Deere patched them, blocking people from using the security weaknesses to customize or fix issues with their machinery. And Sick Codes said he'd been approached by people upset about helping the company close the holes in its systems."It's like anti-right-to-repair sometimes, if you consider it from a different angle," he explained.
So this year, he said, he decided to focus on the underlying hardware and show the fragility of the food supply chain. Crucially, the resulting jailbreak could prove to be a breakthrough for people who want to freely repair and update their tractors and other farming equipment themselves, as John Deere has in place software-level blocks to allow only authorized dealers to perform this work. The jailbreak could allow farmers to bypass those locks.
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