American farmers install Ukrainian firmware on their tractors
Recently the website motherboard.vice.com has echoed the increase in the acquisition and use by many North American farmers of firmware from the black market in order to replace the default firmware installed in tractors of companies like John Deere. According to the farmers, this trend is motivated by the excessive control that the original firmware exercises when repairs or modifies their own vehicles outside the John Deere dealerships and "authorized" repair shops. Although this practice would lose the warranty provided by the manufacturer, in the United States it is completely legal, as indicated by an exemption to the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act" called "Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies".
- 28/10/2015 copyright.gov Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies
- 21/03/2017 vice.com Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
- 22/03/2017 xataka.com Hackear tractores con firmwares ucranianos es solo el principio de una nueva era del hacking
- 22/03/2017 cnet.com Farmers are hacking their tractors so they can actually fix them
- 23/03/2017 eleconomista.es ¿Por qué los granjeros de EEUU hackean con software ucraniano sus tractores?