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This kind of thing could happen at Poker Stars or Full Tilt

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WTF? Why even try to drag the good names of legit poker rooms into this?

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because those sites implicitly allow for such conduct by using things like the KGC instead of having real forensic audits and investigations

their names are mud because they clearly support the crappy overseeing of the industry

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Having said that, its virtually impossible to ensure, in a company that has hundreds if not thousands of previous and existing employees, consultants, programmers etc. and dozens and dozens of high level managers both past and present, that there will NEVER ever be a security breach. It's just impossible to ensure against it.

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This is such ridiculous spin.

While I agree there are complex security breaches that are certainly difficult to prevent (but not impossible), the breach that happened was not NEARLY in this category. In terms of potential attacks, having a version of your software that can watch the cards in real time seems like a pretty large one. It is plainly obvious the "security team" was either terrible or malicious, and right now it seems like the latter is true.

An analogous situation would be if some dude just walked onto a plane with a bomb in plain sight and then blew it up after takeoff. Sure, this is a security breach, but is it easily preventable? In the same vein you can say that protecting an airplane is technically impossible, but that doesn't mean the people in charge of protecting it should throw up their hands and use that excuse in case something bad happens.