Last month, Dixon gave a 40-minute presentation at DEF CON, a popular computer security conference, called Cheating in eSports: How to Cheat at Virtual Cycling Using USB Hacks. He detailed how, with some standard hardware and an Xbox controller, he tricked the system into thinking he was humming around Watopia at race pace while doing nothing more strenuous than cracking open a beer.
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“I unplug the dongle from my computer, and I plug it into the man-in-the-middle box. Then I plug the man-in-the-middle box into the computer,” Dixon said. “Once I do that, I can inspect all of the communications from my Kickr and heart-rate monitor and cadence sensor that are going to Zwift, and I can also modify those communications.”
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