{"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":"
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 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