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I disagree. If I have this kind of skills, I think pokersite is exactly the kind of place I will target. With some minimum poker skills, I can win lots of money without ever being noticed. Even if I get caught, the pokersite probably wont admit it and I probably wont go to jail for it. Obviously I can steal much more if I hack into the Bank of America's computer system, but it is much harder to get away from a crime like that and the punishment will be much more severe than hacking into an offshore pokersite. Talking about risk and reward, it is just hard to come up with a better place to hack than a pokersite.

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I would assume that a person with the knowledge to do something like that would already have a job that pays well enough they don't have to resort to petty theft.

However, I'm probably wrong, judging by the types of individuals you see at a DefCon convention. Some may just do it for the thrill.