Season 2 · Episode 16
Hackers, tractors, and a few delayed actors. How hacker Sick Codes learned too much about John Deere
Lock and Code · Malwarebytes
August 30, 202145m 1s
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Show Notes
No one ever wants a group of hackers to say about their company: “We had the keys to the kingdom.”
But that’s exactly what the hacker Sick Codes said on this week’s episode of Lock and Code, with host David Ruiz, when talking about his and fellow hackers’ efforts to peer into John Deere’s data operations center, where the company receives a near-endless stream of data from its Internet-connected tractors, combines, and other smart farming equipment.