Bicycle racer charged with computer hacking
Summary
A French judge has issued a national arrest warrant for US cyclist Floyd Landis on hacking charges.
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A French judge has issued a national arrest warrant for US cyclist Floyd Landis on hacking charges.
The warrant was issued on 28 January after French anti-doping authorities accused Landis of hacking into one of their laboratory computers, Pierre Boudry, the president of France's anti-doping agency, the Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage, told Reuters on Monday.
Landis, 34, won the 2006 Tour de France but was stripped of the victory and banned from competing for two years by the International Cycling Union after testing positive for high levels of testosterone.
For more on this story, read US cyclist accused of computer hacking on CNET News.
Talkback Most Recent of 17 Talkback(s)
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As a cyclist you've got to be careful what you've done.
Otherwise, you might give the cycling community a bad name.
Grayson Peddie16th Feb 2010 -
RE: Bicycle racer charged with computer hacking
Interesting skill sets that you have to have as a high-performance athlete these days...
veit@...16th Feb 2010 -
RE: Bicycle racer charged with computer hacking
I think The French could do very well to work at their cycling and rid themseles of their anti-american paranoia.
inkwell16th Feb 2010 -
What?
Having hacker detection software is "anti-American paranoia"???
arthurborges@...16th Feb 2010 -
Agreed, maybe if they actually produced some athletes
that could compete on equal footing, they could quit looking for ways to stop those Americans they can't beat otherwise.
mjolnar@...16th Feb 2010 -
Just because you're being paranoid...
doesn't mean they are nor trying to get you, but
exactly who is being paranoid here?
:-))
peter.pirker@...17th Feb 2010 -
RE: Bicycle racer charged with computer hacking
Second thoughts - his 2 year banishment must be up so they gotta do something else to keep him from competing. Gotta love those French 0 guilty untill proven otherwise.inkwell16th Feb 2010 -
French Law...
...provides for presumption of innocence.
Unlike in the USA, however, criminal investigations are headed by a judge ("juge d'instruction" aka "investigating magistrate") who works for the prosecutor's office (=US district attorney) whose duty is to protect the rights of the accused and ensure due process. S/he also puts together the case before it goes to court.
If the warrant went out, the prosecution has a case.arthurborges@...16th Feb 2010 -
I think the French feel they are the accused.
They have that lawyer working for them. The French have done nothing worthwhile in the last 40 years, why do we allow our athletes to go there and be persecuted by the never-do-wells.mjolnar@...16th Feb 2010 -
If he was doped while hacking..
Will the international hacking federation also ban him?
rarsa16th Feb 2010 -
d'oh... plus 1
...but, no, doping while hacking is discouraged, but permissible.
RickB916th Feb 2010 -
RE: Bicycle racer charged with computer hacking
the whole sport of cycling has been tarnished by various
drug scandals over the last few years. another one will
not suprise anyone whether it is proved or not. cheating
in whatever form is a road to nowhere
ron471116th Feb 2010 -
The sorry truth is...
...crime pays.
Otherwise the industry would have gone out of business long ago.arthurborges@...16th Feb 2010 -
I know Floyd Landis . . .
As a person who has met and chatted with Floyd and an avid cyclist and a follower of cycling I can assure you that Floyd is not a doper nor is he a hacker. A real honest investigation into this whole affair will reveal the dark side of the French organization that runs the Tour de France. Their level of corruption internally makes the doping scandal in cycling (and in sports in general) pale in comparison.
Floyd is an unfortunate victim of a witch hunt that falsely accused a honest and hard working cyclist who refused to cave in to the game playing by the French.
The real dispute between Floyd and the French began a number of years ago with a rightful claim for back pay that he was entitled to as a result of his team going out of business. He had paid all the insurance premiums that the French organization required by contract in order to cover such an eventuality but the French refused to pay him his rightful claim which resulted in Floyd nearly going bankrupt at the time.
Because of his repeated efforts to get what was his, the French branded him as a trouble maker. Truth be known, Floyd is indeed a gruff and honestly opinionated person who does not compromise his morals just to get ahead. In fact, I would wager that he would rather lose his cycling legs than cross the line and cheat in order to get ahead. It simply is not in him!
Just my 2? worth . . .
cppsolutions16th Feb 2010 -
You are not the first person to mention that.
I think that just because the French government is in league with the tour de france officials, they are seen as being in the right. Their word should have no more weight than Floyd's word. They were so sure that he was doped up, but they never got an outside body to validate their claims. The lab that his samples were sent to was proven to have been in error, to no avail.
I would personally love to see all American cyclists boycott everything that has to do will France, just to see what kind of coverage they will have, minus the US athletes and media.mjolnar@...16th Feb 2010
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