[HN Gopher] Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29
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       Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29
        
       Author : artbristol
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2021-10-11 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.kaspersky.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.kaspersky.com)
        
       | bri3d wrote:
       | More like "farm equipment manufacturers have insecure backoffice
       | web services" with some tenuous and unsubstantiated highly
       | contrived links to fanciful action movie sub-plots.
       | 
       | I agree that automotive and farm equipment have generally
       | mediocre security track records and that, with the addition of
       | remote connectivity, these issues are concerning. But all
       | hyperbole and breathless reporting like this gains us is an
       | excuse for repair hostility under the guise of "security."
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | _is an excuse for repair hostility under the guise of
         | "security."_
         | 
         | That's what every other company has been trying to do too, not
         | just farm equipment manufacturers. If you look between the
         | lines you'll find that the "security industry" is largely in
         | favour of corporate-authoritarianism. Thankfully, not everyone
         | is stupid, and I suspect farmers are actually more likely to
         | spot the BS.
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | I believe by gut feeling, that the "heavy farm equipment with
         | tracking and repossession built-in" example directly inflames
         | ancient tensions between farmers and remote management. The
         | psychological trigger of the topic adds power and excitement to
         | both sides of that, and security shenanigans multiply, with
         | publicity.
        
       | _hyn3 wrote:
       | Goes right along with "Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere
       | tractor owners" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26903482
        
         | OJFord wrote:
         | 'Goes right along with' as in it's the same work, this
         | submission is just blog author's write up of a presentation of
         | it (or whatever) at Def Con 29.
         | 
         | The researcher's write-up from April: https://sick.codes/leaky-
         | john-deere-apis-serious-food-supply... (submitted thrice but
         | not discussed.)
        
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