@patrickleavy @pluralistic Offering best wishes teaching Canadians to jailbreak the DMCA anti circumvention law. And soon please. Local right to repair is a good thing. #johndeere, #hpprinters, #righttorepair, #repaircafe

@patrickleavy @pluralistic Offering best wishes teaching Canadians to jailbreak the DMCA anti circumvention law. And soon please. Local right to repair is a good thing. #johndeere, #hpprinters, #righttorepair, #repaircafe

WTF!?!

"The nightmare scenario, and a fear I heard expressed over and over again in talking with farmers, is that #JohnDeere could remotely shut down a #tractor and there wouldn’t be anything a farmer could do about it."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware/

I learned about that in the talk by @pluralistic at #39C3 -

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

WTF!?!

"The nightmare scenario, and a fear I heard expressed over and over again in talking with farmers, is that #JohnDeere could remotely shut down a #tractor and there wouldn’t be anything a farmer could do about it."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware/

I learned about that in the talk by @pluralistic at #39C3 -

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet