{"id":46869,"date":"2022-08-16T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T09:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-deere-jailbroken-to-run-doom-at-def-con-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-08-16T09:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T09:24:59","slug":"john-deere-jailbroken-to-run-doom-at-def-con-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-deere-jailbroken-to-run-doom-at-def-con-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"John Deere jailbroken to run Doom at DEF CON \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At DEF CON 30 on Saturday, an Australian who goes by the handle Sick Codes showed off a way to fully take control of some John Deere farming machine electronics to run first-person shooter Doom.<\/p>\n

With some rather-involved hardware hacking and the help of a New Zealand-based maker of Doom mods identified as Skelegant on Twitter, Sick Codes managed to get a corn-themed version of the 1993 classic computer game grandchild<\/a> on a John Deere tractor display.<\/p>\n

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Snap of the John Deere hardware running Doom … Click to enlarge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Sick Codes, in a phone interview with The Register<\/em>described his work as more of a jailbreak than an exploit.<\/p>\n

The project took months to develop, according to<\/a> Sick Codes. It targeted a John Deere tractor 4240 touchscreen controller with an Arm-compatible NXP I.MX 6 system-on-chip running Wind River Linux 8. There were also devices running Windows CE.<\/p>\n

The hack involved getting into the physical guts of the controller and modifying the electronics in such a way to run his code. It turned out once you were able to get your own software onto the equipment, it would just accept it and execute away.<\/p>\n

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