Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters

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Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters

This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story, this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional bicycle races like the Tour de France, which provides an incentive to actually implement this attack.

Research paper. Another news story.

Slashdot thread.

Tags: academic papers, firmware, hacking, Internet of Things, patching