Russian agents who stole $5 million worth of John Deere tractors in Ukraine last year were foiled when remote operators were able to render the vehicles useless via their U.S.-made Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
But Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) are worried that digital technology firms controlled by the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are developing and may already have managed to insert into millions of products counter devices capable of overruling U.S. IoT remote operators.
