Q: How can/should Canadian technologists sell escape hatches to other companies?
A: Cory reminding us about John Deere DRM'd tractors. John Deere bricked hundreds of tractors taken from the Ukraine by the Russians to Chechnya.
Cool from a cyberpunk POV but absolutely chilling when you realize that Trump tomorrow could order John Deere to trigger kill switches on every one of their tractors operating in Canada. (says Cory)
julian
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