[ianisakson]

I have an idea for all you people who say "it's impossible to stop." Quit saying that, it is possible to stop, but we haven't figured it out yet. Instead of deciding that there is nothing you can do, you're helpless, and dealing with it is the only option, spend some time thinking of ways to counteract these problems.

I predict that within 18 months that online poker as we know it will either have dealt with this problem or cease to exist as a profitable career for many of us. It is up to us to keep our jobs safe as poker players, therefore it is our jobs to combat multiaccounters so we can invite fish to come play with us safely and securely.

I think the key will lie in the way accounts are set up, find a way that only the true "owner" of the account can sign into the account, whether it be a SSN as a password or something similar like that.

To UCLA, I think writing an article about cheating in online poker is a bad idea. I think you should focus on writing about how to combat online cheating and share it with the 2+2 and p5's communities and poker websites. The most important thing we can do at this point in time is to keep our 'fight' silent in regards to keeping the fish uninformed to cheating. After all, they are the most important part of online poker and scaring them off would likely result in online poker as we know it to cease.