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Cyclist Floyd Landis Accused Of Illegal Computer Hacking

from the doping-and-hacking dept

Mon, Feb 15th 2010 4:31pm — Mike Masnick

Apparently, a French court has issued an arrest warrant for cyclist Floyd Landis, who won the 2006 Tour de France, but then had the award stripped after he tested positive for abnormally high levels of testosterone, implying some kind of doping. Now, we've argued in the past that the line between drugs and other forms of performance enhancement is pretty blurry at times, but if you're caught breaking the rules, hacking into the computers of the lab holding your test results in an attempt to discredit them certainly doesn't look particularly sporting.

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Pixelation, 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:12pm

This is obviously someone who should give up on breaking the rules since he can't do it properly.
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Robert Ring (profile), 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:12pm

Drug skills. Cycling skills. Computer hacking skills.

This guy's a triple threat.
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:26pm

Extraditon?
I wonder if the U.S. will extradite Landis to France they way they've demanded Britain extradite Gary McKinnon to the U.S..
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:27pm

Re:
"This guy's a triple threat." 3 strikes and he's out. =p
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:40pm

Drug skills. Cycling skills. Computer hacking skills.

This guy's a triple threat.
THATS -
Drug skillzz. Cycling skillzz. Computer hacking skillzz.
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:47pm

Napoleon Dynamite: No, but who would? I don't even have any good skills.
Pedro: What do you mean?
Napoleon Dynamite: You know, like nunchuku skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills.
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:), 15 Feb 2010 @ 5:48pm

Shmoo.
He should have attended ShmooCon in 2005.
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Dark Helmet (profile), 15 Feb 2010 @ 6:01pm

Wow...
I'm glad I clicked the "pretty blurry" link to the past TD article...it provided a laugh.

Never before have I seen one writer be SO wrong on the steroids in sports question...
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scott, 15 Feb 2010 @ 6:19pm

He Didn't Do it...
The same guy who stuck the testosterone patch on his ass (that he didn't know about) during the TDF spoofed his IP and tried to access the records. What else could it possibly be?
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Feb 2010 @ 8:06pm

How do they know his blood wasn't spiked be jealous French anti-doping agents?

Or that they didn't spike his food? Or needle him in his sleep?

The whole story with Floyd Landis was weird to begin with and keeps getting weirder. I doubt the truth will ever be known.
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Feb 2010 @ 8:15pm

Re:
How do they know his blood wasn't spiked be jealous French anti-doping agents? Or that they didn't spike his food? Or needle him in his sleep?

You forgot to mention abduction by space aliens who injected him and then returned him.
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LBD, 15 Feb 2010 @ 11:29pm

Related
I'm related to Floyd Landis. My grandmother was a Landis.
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LBD, 15 Feb 2010 @ 11:33pm

Oh and
This joker? He's related to the side of my faimly that was deeded a mountain by George Washington for working as his surveyor.

Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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Bobe, 16 Feb 2010 @ 8:51am

the only thing
back in cycling .. and he now is sucking bad .. not able to barely win on a amateur cycling team.

Doesn't look good Floyd.
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Jason, 16 Feb 2010 @ 9:04am

Landis Was Framed
The more you learn about the Landis case, the more obvious it was that he was framed. The results the French lab reported, even if properly obtained, and that is a huge if, would have been declared within regulations at virtually any other lab in the world.

If you didn't know anything about the Landis case, if Landis was guilty, and he knew, it, what good would hacking into the lab do for him? How would getting at their records prove his innocence if he was actually guilty?

This is a case where the lab withheld and destroyed crucial evidence. I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Druid Man (profile), 16 Feb 2010 @ 10:17am

Landis
Landis is NOT accused of the hacking. He used it in his defense to show the agency's security and methods were lax.
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Anonymous Coward, 16 Feb 2010 @ 2:43pm

Re: Landis
Landis is NOT accused of the hacking.

So, you're saying CNET lied? Show your evidence or I'm inclined to think you're the one lying.
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Anonymous Coward, 16 Feb 2010 @ 2:47pm

Re: Landis Was Framed
if Landis was guilty, and he knew, it, what good would hacking into the lab do for him?

The theory is that he was fishing for some kind of technicality that he could use to get off. Some place where the lab forgot to cross a T or dot an I, so to speak.
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mart01, 16 Feb 2010 @ 5:33pm

pathetic!
that's pathetic! got himself into deeper trouble
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Anonymous Coward, 17 Feb 2010 @ 7:15am

Honesty is important in this world.People will forgive someone who admits they did it. But when you continually deceive everyone,you loose your credibility. How could Landis have gained 8 mins. back on one stage of tdf without doping? When pros are at the end of their career, they'll try desperate things. Floyd Landis was a great cyclist, but his cover up no longer makes him a great champion.
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