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Self-Hacking

04/02/2017 / By Robert Jonathan

Farmers are now forced to hack into their own tractors to bypass draconian manufacturer controls

American farmers reluctantly find themselves resorting to the black market because of a legally binding licensing agreement imposed by John Deere and other similarly situated manufacturers. Given this restriction, which John Deere apparently crafted to circumvent an agricultural vehicle exemption in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, many heartland farmers believe that they have no alternative but to download jailbreaked […]

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