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>order John Deere to switch off all the tractors in your country:

For a smart guy, sometimes he says the dumbest things in the most confidently incorrect way.

I read the article that he links to and he's thinking of John Deere tractors that were stolen by the Russians from a dealer in Ukraine and got bricked remotely as a result. It showed the tech exists to do such things.

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