No right to repair: Farmers are forced to hack their own tractors

Episode 1 of Coded Season 3 explores farmers in Nebraska who have been forced to hack their own farm equipment because they've been denied the right to repair via other means.

Once trained just to work their land, farmers have had to turn to hacking to defend their livelihood. The high-tech tractors of today are deeply complex computer systems that rely more on software than hardware to function. But the tractor companies are the only ones who are allowed to access their diagnostics, and they defend that right aggressively. As a result, tractor hacking has grown popular - sometimes using firmware from as far off as Ukraine to hack into their own John Deere equipment. We join the farmers in Nebraska on the forefront of the Right to Repair movement, which also has implications well beyond farming, from Apple cellphones to hospital medical equipment.

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