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Security of playing online poker in hotel rooms
Hey all,
I am going on a short golf vacation and was thinking of bringing my laptop with me incase I get the urge to play during the evenings. Are there any questions I should ask the hotel staff before leaving to see if I should just leave my computer at home, with regards to the security of the connection? As well, is there any thing I can do on my end to make things more secure if I do choose to bring my laptop and play? Many thanks, Scott |
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Re: Security of playing online poker in hotel rooms
as far as I can tell (browsing these forums and looking into it), there are no obvious solutions to making your internet access via a hotel room more secure, short of bringing your own hardware router + firewall (which in turn brings a heap of hassle).
the traffic between your PC and the poker sites is encrypted, so you have a reasonable level of protection. in reality, you have a low risk of trouble, as the number of people: a) on your network and b) who have the ability to hack and c) have the intention of hacking you and d) know when you're online and e) successfully hack you is likely to be very small - they need to fit every single one of those criteria. I cannot imagine that it is a profitable use of someone's time to stay hooked onto a hotel computer network seaching for possible hacking targets. sure, it is possible, but certainly unlikely. in EV terms, you could theoretically slightly discount your hourly rate to compensate for the theoretical conceptual losses that could occur in all the millions of hours of online poker play in hotels. i arbitarily guess that, depending on your online bankroll, this would be something in the order of -0.01% of your hourly rate. |
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Re: Security of playing online poker in hotel rooms
lan everyone can see your unencrypted traffic and can hack via arp poisoning so if you secure login to email or something (https) and a ssl certificate warning pops up and says address doesnt' match certificate don't click ok you might be getting middled.
other than that no biggie. |
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Re: Security of playing online poker in hotel rooms
I'd avoid it without a VPN or something similar to encrypt ALL your traffic.
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