Hacker, Cyclist, Executive, Spy

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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/10/hacker-cyclist-executive-spy/

By DAVID JOLLY
Green
The New York Times
November 10, 2011

Électricité de France, the giant power utility and the world’s biggest 
operator of nuclear power plants, was found guilty on Thursday of spying 
on Greenpeace in a bizarre and convoluted computer hacking case that 
also ensnared the disgraced American cyclist Floyd Landis.

A court in Nanterre, near Paris, fined E.D.F. 1.5 million euros, or 
about $2 million, for complicity in concealing stolen documents and 
complicity to intrude in a computer network. It also sentenced two 
E.D.F. security officials and two security consultants to prison terms 
and ordered E.D.F. to pay Greenpeace 500,000 euros ($680,000) in 
damages.

The company had argued that it had itself been the victim, with the 
security consulting firm that it hired acting illegally without its 
knowledge.

The court also handed down suspended sentences of 12 months each to Mr. 
Landis -- who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after 
testing positive for elevated levels of testosterone -- and his coach, 
Arnie Baker. Both men, who have always maintained their innocence, were 
tried in absentia for having received stolen documents.

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