Re: Absolute Cheating
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All,
For us computer morons, can someone explain why/how this kind of cheating could only be happening at one site?
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To play poker, thousands of "clients" (i.e., your PC) connect to one (or a few) "servers" run by a site.
The evidence so far points overwhelmingly to a "server-side" security issue, where based on poor design AND a dishonest insider, somebody can read hole cards in real time from the server. Each site has its own servers (except for skins, which we can consider one site). So a security compromise on one site's server would have no relevance to any other site.
A "client-side" hack (i.e., a hacker's program on your PC that could read hole cards) could potentially involve multiple sites, but nobody but the tinfoil-hat crowd has found one of those yet.
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