Re: PAHUD wanting to connect to the internet
I agree with all of this. I hate the fact that PAHUD authenticates itself periodically. At least it doesn't do it all the time. On the other hand, it seems unnecessary for this software in particular (poker players are so involved with money that they'd just pay if they want to use it), and poker players have more reason than most to not want their software to be reporting to untrusted locations.
I saw somebody mention PT doing this. As far as I can see PT doesn't authenticate at all. The website insinuates that it does (they mention disabling installations if you install on over two computers), but I have seen no evidence of this. It can look to see if there is an update, but you can enable/disable this.
End result is that I begrudgingly just decided to trust the PAHUD developers. Unfortunately I think we'll see this in PT3 too.
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