Posted on 02/23/2021 8:48:44 PM PST by linMcHlp
Massachusetts actually passed such a law, but unknown if it applied to farm equipment.
Planting time would be a more potent attack. There is a tight window where things have to be done... harvest can drag out.
US ag is incredibly reliant on GPS. Most of the major planting is done with electronic guidance.
I don’t get it.
They don’t make code readers for farm equipmemt?
“The majority of the tractors and other farm equipment have software and codes. If a tractor goes down, the farmer has to wait for the dealership or someone above them to send someone out to fix the code.”
So how many people think we can grow food after an EMP? Answer: Virtually everyone.
How many of the above are correct?
Answer: Virtually no one.
“That implies that the right bit of malware, inserted at harvest time, has the potential to damage US food supplies.”
You are correct, and that would make a GREAT NOVEL, and maybe even some attention to the risk will be paid. Right now, it’s no different than the need to winterize Texas power plants - there was never a need, because the system never collapsed in the past due to cold weather...
So, something like a Stuxnet Virus hits our harvesting equipment at just the wrong time...and people literally starve. Not a shot fired, the big, shiny tractors are still there, but dead to this world, paperweights.
“US ag is incredibly reliant on GPS. Most of the major planting is done with electronic guidance.”
I know, and sometimes the ONLY THING that can shake people out of their slumber (after all, who needs to winterize in Texas, especially with Global Warming taking hold) is a little Pearl Harbor type stunt.
Let’s say we shut off GPS for a week...
Manufactures are also working with the government to enforce EPA rules.
Farmers will delete their DEF systems on equipment.
That is a major reason why manufactures don’t want to allow farmers to poke around.
I’m off the hook! All of the dealership repair guys for my 1954 Allis-Chalmers tractor are dead. ;)
https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/mahindra-owning-operating/386107-obd-code-reader.html
John Deere
https://www.repairmanuals.co/products/john-deere-equipment-diagnostic-scanner-fault-code-reader
AGCO, CLAAS, etc
https://www.balticdiag.com/agricultural-machinery-diagnostic-tools/
Farmers are pirating John Deere tractor software to stick it to the man
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/246314-farmers-pirating-john-deere-tractor-software-stick-man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZi29CVBJqM
John Deere Diagnostic Options
https://blog.diesellaptops.com/2016/09/02/john-deere-diagnostic-options/
Ditto on all the previous replies to your question. A lot of farmers have turned to buying pirated proprietary diagnostic software (from Eastern European sources) that allows them to adjust settings and make repairs on their newer model John Deere, Case, etc. farm equipment.
No! Now the functions are determined by an electronic circuit board which, when it fails must be replaced by a circuit board whose cost is half the original cost of the machine! Its repair was available only from Sears' technician, whose fees for coming and replacing the board would make the total cost greater than its salability value as a used item.
There were no schematics available from Sears for me to dismount the board and take it to the local electronics repairman to test and fix it.
And this was while I still was making payments for it on the Sears card.
It isn't just farmers; it's all of us, from utility users to auto owners to grocery shoppers. It's too complex to sustain.
bttt
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