Genius hacker uncovers Olympic scam (allegedly)...

[PeterCH]

The controversy of the Chinese Female Olympic Gymnastics team has been reopened yesterday when an elite search engine hacker called stryde.hax,
uncovered documents from the website of General Administration of Sport of China. The documents apparently mentioned that the real ages of the
3 recent Chinese gold medal winners were 14 and not 16. 16 is the minmum
age to enter olympics in gymnastics. Apparently the super hacker found the material on Baidu, the biggest search engine in China, in a cached result.

http://strydehax.blogspot.com/ <--- hacker's take on this.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/20/1259253
Comments on slashdot.

Personal comment: other than the possible controversy or not,
one has to be amazed at such l33t hacking skills.

 

[Necuno]

sounds like a script kiddy to me

 

[PeterCH]

Haha, BBC called him a 'security expert'.

Either way, I hope the Chinese stick to their story, after all even if the poor girl was younger and favoured
for some extra dexterity, she risked more injury than an older competitor and she was the best
objectively after all - that comes from hard work not from merely being 2 years younger, plus it
was the adults' fault anyway.

 

[Necuno]

Haha, BBC called him a 'security expert'.

lol, some how a picture of a car guard comes to mind...

 

[PeterCH]

lol, some how a picture of a car guard comes to mind...

Well you know how the lay media always take things out of context. The guy is a BLOGGER after all, he must be something super-special!

 

[GreenPunkt [clone of Skeptik]]

Haha, BBC called him a 'security expert'.

Either way, I hope the Chinese stick to their story, after all even if the poor girl was younger and favoured
for some extra dexterity, she risked more injury than an older competitor and she was the best
objectively after all - that comes from hard work not from merely being 2 years younger, plus it
was the adults' fault anyway.

I'm not sure why you side with the Chinese team. They appear to have cheated, so the sooner this is resolved the better.

Younger athletes have an advantage because they are lighter and perform better, which gives them a motive for having them in the team. China is strict about many things, movements of foreign journalists, press freedom, even society, so for them to have made an honest mistake is unthinkable - but lets check anyway.

 

[Necuno]

...maybe they weren't even human *thinks chinese replication*

 

[milomak]

there is a reason for rules. if they are broken those who have broken them should face the consequences.

 

[PeterCH]

there is a reason for rules. if they are broken those who have broken them should face the consequences.

That's assuming they lied, which one can't prove.