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Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by Cyph0n on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:14PM (#13932775)
Looks like standard electronics manufacturing; nothing state-of-the-art. It's still interesting that they chose to design and manufacture it all in-house.
Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by weberc2 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @01:27PM (#13932889)
I didn't mean to imply that it was in some way non-standard or state-of-the-art; only that they do, in fact, manufacture some of their electronics in-house.
Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by Arizhel on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:55PM (#13941555)
I don't see any evidence there that they manufacture semiconductors, only electronics. Manufacturing electronics isn't that hard, depending on what exactly you're doing. Assembling printed circuit boards from components is something you can even do by hand in most cases, and automated assembly equipment isn't really that expensive to set up a small factory, depending on the volume required (small-volume stuff isn't that expensive, high-volume high-speed stuff is more so). Manufacturing semiconductors is something else altogether, and isn't something you can do in a small warehouse with a few hundred $K of equipment; it requires very specialized buildings and equipment.
Re:The thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking by weberc2 on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:04PM (#13949851)
Fair enough, I probably misspoke.