{"id":29106,"date":"2022-08-18T02:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pley2win.com\/pc\/doom-runs-on-a-tractor-now-and-for-a-good-cause\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T02:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T01:33:41","slug":"doom-runs-on-a-tractor-now-and-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pley2win.com\/?p=29106","title":{"rendered":"Doom runs on a tractor now and for a good cause"},"content":{"rendered":"


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You can play Doom, id Software\u2019s renowned horror game, on almost everything, and now thanks to the efforts of industrious modders-slash-hackers, that includes playing Doom on a tractor. Sick Codes and Skelegant, the hackers in question, performed the jailbreak during DefCon 2022 (first spotted by Wired), a convention dedicated to hacking and the people who do it. But the cheeky act of putting the\u00a0FPS\u00a0game on a tractor was more than just a bit of fun or a chance to shoot some demons while you\u2019re out on the farm. Sick Codes wanted to show how easy it was to bypass John Deere tractor computers, exposing several flaws in the manufacturer\u2019s ongoing arguments against letting farmer repair their own equipment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTurns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems,\u201d Kyle Wiens<\/a>, CEO of e-commerce and parts supplier company Ifixit, said on Twitter. \u201cJohn Deere has repeatedly told regulators that farmers can\u2019t be trusted to repair their own equipment. This foundational work will pave the path for farmers to retake control of the equipment that they own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wired\u2019s report says the jailbreak wasn\u2019t an attack. Instead, it exposed easily exploitable features in the tractors\u2019 poorly maintained computer infrastructure. This isn\u2019t something new for the hacker either. Sick Codes put on another demonstration during 2021\u2019s DefCon and saw results soon after, with John Deere making changes to its systems in an effort to fix the issues Sick Codes exposed.<\/p>\n

\u201cFarmers prefer the older equipment simply because they want reliability. They don\u2019t want stuff to go wrong at the most important part of the year when they have to pull stuff out of the ground,\u201d Wired reported Sick Codes said. \u201cSo that\u2019s what we should all want too. We want farmers to be able to repair their stuff for when things go wrong, and now that means being able to repair or make decisions about the software in their tractors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the full story on Wired, and if you\u2019re after some free PC games with no hacking required, we\u2019ve got you covered there too.<\/p>\n

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