Cyber security expert speaks about online poker security, risks, collusion, and more

Hi ccers,

As the integrity and safety of playing online poker is such an important issue to us all, it behooves us to be aware of related news and developments in that regard.

With online poker now legal in 3 U.S. states and battles being fought to expand legalization ever further, there are opponents of online poker (hint hint Sheldon Adelson and his cronies) arguing against it on unsafe security, collusion, and money laundering grounds.

My good friend, Eddie Harari, is a cyber security professional with over 25 years of experience in the field. He's also a recreational poker player, both live and online.

He was kind enough to put his expert knowledge into words "to help the cause" and make the case in favor of safe and secure online poker on technical grounds.

With that in mind, I'd like to invite you to read his article, which, over the last few hours since its publication, has received the full backing of the Poker Players Alliance.

http://cardplayerlifestyle.com/fully-secure-online-poker-possible/

Enjoy,

Robbie

Behooves us does it?

hashtag said:

Behooves us does it?

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Well it behooved me

Sorry bout the SAT vocab there... was just in a good mood... how about:

• it is incumbent upon us, or
• we oughtta

Works? ;-)
Just kidding... I appreciate that you've taken an interest.
Robbie

I read it anyway. Didn't need any behooving

Good read, thanks for posting.

Haha - my pleasure

Good article, thanks my brother

Great Article. If we don't feel like it is safe to play online, we will tend not to want to play online.

How can one stop collusion at SnG's? If a bunch of friends from different locations across the country play in the same game, they can easily dominate SnG's. How would we tackle a problem like this? I guess using the "anomaly softwAre" mentioned in the article would prevent things like this from repeatedly occurring.....

pretty interesting

punctual said:

Great Article. If we don't feel like it is safe to play online, we will tend not to want to play online.

How can one stop collusion at SnG's? If a bunch of friends from different locations across the country play in the same game, they can easily dominate SnG's. How would we tackle a problem like this? I guess using the "anomaly softwAre" mentioned in the article would prevent things like this from repeatedly occurring.....

pretty interesting

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Thanks for reading... good question. I just read today that an operator will be testing anonymous SNG registration... forgot which one... def a step in the right direction though.

The point made about having a seperate computer for online poker play is correct. You can buy cheap components to set such a system in place. It is worth the time and expense.

Great article, there will always be a way to cheat...every sport does it. We just have to be able to read it and beat the odds.

punctual said:

How can one stop collusion at SnG's? If a bunch of friends from different locations across the country play in the same game, they can easily dominate SnG's. How would we tackle a problem like this? I guess using the "anomaly softwAre" mentioned in the article would prevent things like this from repeatedly occurring.....

pretty interesting

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How could it be profitable to collude in SNGs? I can't see it all six handed. To keep the math simple, they pay $10 plus the fees each and the winner gets $39, second gets $21. So depending on the fees, one second is about break even. That means they need considerably more firsts colluding then they could get separately.

I would think cash games would be the danger of colluding. One player could raise for the other players good hands. They could run squeeze plays. They could know when some of their outs are out (i.e. in their partners hand). More room for action in cash games.