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Google loses its domain in Argentina, how do gripe sites make their dough, and has John Deere solved the cybersecurity problem?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer se… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #225: Master of your domain, gripe sites, and John Deere Farmergeddon
The simmering duel between farmers and agricultural machinery manufacturers over access to the software to unlock the DRM which excludes all but the manufacturer’s agents from performing repairs goes on. How this plays out will have implications for the right to repair for everyone on many more devices than simply …read more
Continue reading Right To Repair: Tractor Manufacturers Might Have Met Their Match In Australia
For the past few years now we’ve covered a long-running battle between American farmers and the manufacturers of their farm machinery, over their right to repair, with particular focus on the agricultural giant John Deere. The manufacturer of the familiar green and yellow machinery that lies in the heart and …read more
It’s fair to say that the hearts and minds of Hackaday readers lie closer to the technology centres of Shenzhen or Silicon Valley than they do to the soybean fields of Minnesota. The common link is the desire to actually own the hardware we buy. Among those working the soil …read more
Continue reading DMCA-Locked Tractors Make Decades-Old Machines the New Hotness
Warren becomes the most powerful national politician to support consumers who want to fix the things they’ve bought. Continue reading Elizabeth Warren Calls for a National Right-to-Repair Law
The California Farm Bureau has agreed to a toothless version of “right to repair” that was written by tractor manufacturers. Continue reading Farmer Lobbying Group Sells Out Farmers, Helps Enshrine John Deere’s Tractor Repair Monopoly
We went to Nebraska to meet the farmers fighting John Deere’s repair monopoly. Continue reading Tractor Hacking: Watch Our Documentary About Farmers Fighting for the Right to Repair
Farmers across the country are fighting John Deere’s repair monopoly—and winning. Continue reading Tractor-Hacking Farmers Are Leading a Revolt Against Big Tech’s Repair Monopolies
When it comes to activism, there are many different grades of activist aside from the few who you may encounter quietly and effectively working for change in their field. There are the self-proclaimed activists who sit in their armchairs and froth online about whatever their Cause is, but ultimately aside from making a lot of noise are pretty ineffectual. Then there are the Rebels With A Cause, involved in every radical movement of the moment and always out on the streets about something or other, but often doing those causes more harm than good. Activists can be hard work, at …read more
Continue reading Will John Deere Finally Get Their DMCA Comeuppance?
Few people would deny that farming is hard work. It always has been, and it probably always will be no matter how fancy the equipment gets. In 1932, farming was especially grueling. There was widespread drought throughout the United States, which gave rise to dust bowl conditions. As if those two things weren’t bad enough, the average income of the American farmer fell to its lowest point during the Depression, thanks to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Even so, crop farming was still a viable and somewhat popular career path in 1932. After all, knowing how to grow food is always …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Farming Implements in 1932