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4. The information provided by AP included stuff that is not supposed to be given out. This extra information was even more incriminating than the normally given out information would have been. It included the fact that there was someone who was observing the winner for a long time. And that this observer was known to once be a part owner of AP.

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Since you didn't note this anywhere, the extra information also included hole cards of all players, which is what allowed everyone to determine that the winner was quite obviously cheating.

Answer to #12 is likely "retardation."

Answer to #13 is more of a technical issue than a scientific one. Scientifically it's absolutely possible, you just program something that's like "if superuser send all cards" and bam, there you go. Properly guarded, in fact, it's perfectly harmless for sites to have accounts that can see hole cards of players, as long as they are used exclusively in a testing environment and can't play for real money etc etc /precautions. I'd imagine (based solely on my experience as a computer programmer) that other sites probably do have this capability; for unregulated offshore companies, why would they do extra work to remove this functionality from their software once testing is complete? We've all dealt with FTP support, we know that as a company they're prob gonna cut corners with stuff like this whenever possible. The problem is when sites get lax with protecting stuff like this from getting into the hands of employees that are like "lol $$$" and do stupid crap like what the AP employees did.