Well, thus is just delightful.
Russia Steals Ukrainian Farm Equipment, Gets Remotely Locked Out
While I have no doubt that there are Russian computer whizzes skillful enough to bypass the lockout, this has still got to be a bit of an embarrassment - Ukrainians have used farm equipment to steal Russian tanks, so Russia responds by stealing Ukrainian farm equipment, which they can’t use.
Boru
Russia Steals Ukrainian Farm Equipment, Gets Remotely Locked Out
Quote:Russian troops occupying the Ukrainian city of Melitopol stole nearly $5 million of farm vehicles from a John Deere dealership and shipped some of them more than 700 miles to Chechnya, , only to find they had been rendered useless by a remote-locking system that prevented the thieves from turning the equipment on.
"When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," a source familiar with the incident .
While I have no doubt that there are Russian computer whizzes skillful enough to bypass the lockout, this has still got to be a bit of an embarrassment - Ukrainians have used farm equipment to steal Russian tanks, so Russia responds by stealing Ukrainian farm equipment, which they can’t use.
Boru
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