While Shimano's patching plan leaves a week or two-week gap between the researchers' public presentation of their bike-hacking technique at Usenix and the broad rollout of a fix for customers, UCSD professor Fernandes argues it's unlikely that average riders will be targeted with their technique-at least not immediately. 'I find it hard to believe that someone will want to launch such an attack on me during my Saturday group ride,' Fernandes says.
In the ruthless world of competitive cycling, which has been rocked to its foundations in recent decades by doping scandals, they argue that rivals hacking each others' shifters is not at all a far-fetched scenario. 'This is, in our opinion, a different kind of doping,' says Fernandes. 'It leaves no trace, and it allows you to cheat in the sport.'
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