Farmers ask for right to repair

https://www.dailyherald.com/business/20210303/farmers-ask-for-right-to-repair

By RAYMON TRONCOSO
Capitol News Illinois
rtroncoso@capitolnewsillinois.com
Updated 3/3/2021 5:26 PM

SPRINGFIELD -- Legislation backed by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group would require farming equipment manufacturers to make software required for repairs available to consumers for purchase.

House Bill 3061, introduced as the "Digital Right to Repair Act"...

Future Reverse Engineering Work

JTAG attack on the ECU

Upon investigation of the ECU board it was noted that there may be JTAG or similar debug pins exposed that have been previously accessed, likely during the remanufacturing process. These are pictured below:



Injecting debug commands into the CAN network

The J1939 spec specifies a number of debugging commands that can be injected into the CAN network to receive back certain information....

John Deere Fails to Uphold Right to Repair Agreement Signed in 2018
by Joel Hruska on February 23, 2021
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/320183-john-deere-fails-to-uphold-right-to-repair-agreement-signed-in-2018

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In September 2018, the Equipment Dealers Association signed an agreement with John Deere in which the company would begin voluntarily making repair tools, software guides, and diagnostic equipment available for ordinary farmers to purpose beginning January

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Bolstering agribusinesses defence against hackers
by James McManagan

https://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/7137761/bolstering-agribusinesses-defence-against-hackers/

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Last March, a 'basic' phishing email shut down Australian wool sales and exposed how vulnerable our agricultural industry is to malicious cyber attacks.
A year on, that concern is there more than ever. As automation and data collection become more relied on, there is a growing concern...

Encrypted Tractors – and the Open Source Solution - Resilience

David Bollier
May 30, 2017

From: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2...urce-solution/
NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

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Imagine that you’re a farmer who bought a John Deere tractor for $25,000 – or perhaps a big, heavy-duty model for $125,000 or more. Then something goes wrong with the computer software inside the tractor (its “firmware”). Thanks to a new licensing...