These bikes also cost a few thousand dollars. Folk may be willing to give a hacker a couple hundred to unlock them.
“Day 100. User 1 is hanging three shirts, two pairs of pants, and one jacket on the bike. Same as day 99.”
My response would be, “Te bike is yours... come take it.”.
This is why I don’t use an exercise bike.......yeah, that’s the reason.
It’s a Peloton feuilleton.
The one I’m expecting to get a lot of hacking done to it is that “Mirror” thing, if only by pervert voyeurs.
You seen the commercials?
Hacker: Keep running or we blow up you and the bike!
Hacker: Type in your credit and debit card or we only display “The View” tv show!
Anything that connects to a network can behave like a server. Exercise bikes are no exception. Even many drones run TCP/IP services.
And these bikes are going to connect to a host machine or server farm somewhere.