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# A new jailbreak for John Deere tractors rides the right-to-repair wave
- URL: https://werd.io/a-new-jailbreak-for-john-deere-tractors-rides-the-right-to-repair/
- Published: 2022-08-16T17:14:10.000Z
- Updated: 2022-08-16T17:14:10.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:23

“Farmers around the world have turned to tractor hacking so they can bypass the digital locks that manufacturers impose on their vehicles. Like insulin pump “looping” and iPhone jailbreaking, this allows farmers to modify and repair the expensive equipment that’s vital to their work, the way they could with analog tractors.” [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/08/a-new-jailbreak-for-john-deere-tractors-rides-the-right-to-repair-wave/)\]