Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
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Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#2Having worked on a John Deere integration for an agtech company I can't say I'm surprised. The MyJohnDeere API had a lot of idiosyncrasies that smelled like inexperienced or mismanaged development, especially around authentication/authorization.
At the time I was working on it they had some extremely arcane authentication process that required round-trip emails, various link clicking and code entering, and all kinds of craziness. Toward the end of my tenure our point of contact finally told us they were moving to OAuth but they had nearly zero documentation on it.
For anyone who isn't knowledgable in the farming space, I'd highly recommend a browse through John Deere's API documentation [0]. Before the agtech gig I hadn't really given it a second though, but modern farms are very high tech operations. Really cool stuff happening in agtech.
[0] https://developer-portal.deere.com/#/myjohndeere/api-invento...
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#3I’m not surprised by this. They’ve made themselves a target because of their Right To Repair shenanigans. https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/320183-john-deere-fa...
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#4I once had a company ask me to white label our agency and resell to these guys.
Long story short they’re def not tech savvy
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#5Having worked on a John Deere integration for an agtech company I can't say I'm surprised. The MyJohnDeere API had a lot of idiosyncrasies that smelled like inexperienced or mismanaged development, especially around authentication/authorization. At the time I was working on it they had some extremely arcane authentication process that required round-trip emails, various link clicking and code entering, and all kinds…
Lol this was literally my reply
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#6Having worked on a John Deere integration for an agtech company I can't say I'm surprised. The MyJohnDeere API had a lot of idiosyncrasies that smelled like inexperienced or mismanaged development, especially around authentication/authorization. At the time I was working on it they had some extremely arcane authentication process that required round-trip emails, various link clicking and code entering, and all kinds…
We need a new word for these high tech massive farming operations. I come from the Canadian farming sector. Most of the farmers here are individuals, or medium sized family operations. Even the big farms aren't "high tech". There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms.
I wouldn't say "modern farms are very high tech operations", I'd say "high tech industrial players are in the process of taking over western agriculture".
The word "farm" mean something special to me, as I was born and raised on one. What your talking about is something completely different.
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#7Having worked on a John Deere integration for an agtech company I can't say I'm surprised. The MyJohnDeere API had a lot of idiosyncrasies that smelled like inexperienced or mismanaged development, especially around authentication/authorization. At the time I was working on it they had some extremely arcane authentication process that required round-trip emails, various link clicking and code entering, and all kinds…
We need a new word for these high tech massive farming operations. I come from the Canadian farming sector. Most of the farmers here are individuals, or medium sized family operations. Even the big farms aren't "high tech". There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms. I wouldn't say "modern farms are very high tech operations", I'd say "high tech industrial players…
So said the blacksmith’s son watching the invention of the steel press.
“High tech industrial players are in the process of taking over western forgery.”
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#8Having worked on a John Deere integration for an agtech company I can't say I'm surprised. The MyJohnDeere API had a lot of idiosyncrasies that smelled like inexperienced or mismanaged development, especially around authentication/authorization. At the time I was working on it they had some extremely arcane authentication process that required round-trip emails, various link clicking and code entering, and all kinds…
We need a new word for these high tech massive farming operations. I come from the Canadian farming sector. Most of the farmers here are individuals, or medium sized family operations. Even the big farms aren't "high tech". There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms. I wouldn't say "modern farms are very high tech operations", I'd say "high tech industrial players…
Factory farm.
Re: Bugs allowed hackers to dox John Deere tractor owners
#9So many of these old school industrial companies that are getting into IOT will have these issues. Who is building the Stripe for old school industrials going into IOT? I’m sure someone is building that Comoros.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
We need a new word for these high tech massive farming operations. I come from the Canadian farming sector. Most of the farmers here are individuals, or medium sized family operations. Even the big farms aren't "high tech". There just a lot of guys and a bunch of leased machines. We have essentially 0 "high tech" farms. I wouldn't say "modern farms are very high tech operations", I'd say "high tech industrial players…
So said the blacksmith’s son watching the invention of the steel press. “High tech industrial players are in the process of taking over western forgery.”
Ya and we don't call a factory a Blacksmith now do we?
"Modern blacksmiths sure are big!"