spiderlake
08-15-2006, 07:26 AM
As an information security professional, I found this essay by Bruce Schneier to offer what is perhaps a different perspective on the issue of doping in professional sports.
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71566-0.html
A snippet from the article above:
"Drug testing is a security issue. Various sports federations around the world do their best to detect illegal doping, and players do their best to evade the tests. It's a classic security arms race: improvements in detection technologies lead to improvements in drug detection evasion, which in turn spur the development of better detection capabilities. Right now, it seems that the drugs are winning; in places, these drug tests are described as "intelligence tests": if you can't get around them, you don't deserve to play."
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71566-0.html
A snippet from the article above:
"Drug testing is a security issue. Various sports federations around the world do their best to detect illegal doping, and players do their best to evade the tests. It's a classic security arms race: improvements in detection technologies lead to improvements in drug detection evasion, which in turn spur the development of better detection capabilities. Right now, it seems that the drugs are winning; in places, these drug tests are described as "intelligence tests": if you can't get around them, you don't deserve to play."