Hackers Use The Beep-Boop-Boop-Beep To Prove China’s A Buncha Liars

As of this morning, the Americans lead the total medal count at the Olympics, but trail China in the Gold tally by almost 20. Half of those golds, however, have been won by the Chinese women’s gymnastics team who have been outed by hackers as fielding members under the IOC’s minimum requirement of 16. We’d like to say it’s an anti-censorship, Pro-Tibet thing, but the (probably) 13-year-olds who pulled it off ripped on Mountain Dew were probably just trying to access pictures of any hot boobies the Chinese had hiding in their servers and stumbled upon it.

“A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China’s women’s gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China’s General Administration of Sport of China.

The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google’s document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu… showing the age of one of China’s gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government-issued passport.”

The internet’s cache is going to do us all in at some point. Whether you’re an underage Olympic gymnast, or someone trying to scrub the existence of those ‘03 Spring Break pictures before your job or significant other finds them, the past always lives on the internet.
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud [Slashdot]
Image [NY Times]