Originally Posted by
grolby
I think all of the snark about hacking or jamming another pro team's shifting is pretty silly. Signal encryption today is extremely advanced. Cycling teams do not have the expertise to even try it, without hiring outside help. And that outside help would not be able to reliably break the signaling encryption, since most of the time they wouldn't even be able to find it. Lots of low-power radio signals moving along at 20-30 mph in an open environment. People think this is an easy problem? Not even remotely worth the investment of time, money and equipment it would take to try it. Environmental interference is a much more realistic issue, but I think they can beat that one.
Hacking is hard, jamming can be easy and encryption will not prevent or mitigate jamming.