Re: Security of online casinos

["Kevin Pawloski" <kpawloski () gmail com>]

Absolute Poker recently had an incident over the summer where an insider had
access to a "super-user" account and was able to see the cards of every
player at the table. That whole incident played out like a B Movie. Lots of
details about the incident have been posted over various sites; here are a
few links to start digging into:

http://archives1.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=beats&Number=12541923&page=0&fpart=1

http://www.poker-king.com/poker-king-articles.php?article=282

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1913888/posts

Kevin

On Dec 20, 2007 6:32 PM, Matteo G. <rebonzo () libero it> wrote:

> I was googling, looking for some answers, but I didn't find them, so I ask
> here:
>
> - Has any online casinos' software ever been cracked?
> - Who tests casinos' software for security purposes?
> - Are their random number generators really random?
>
> The answer to the last question should be obvious, but I've noticed that
> "sometimes" (unfortunately not always) playing european roulette in a
> Microgaming casino gave me more chance to hit a specific number when I
> started the game in a given time interval. This behaviour is not always
> reproducible, so I'm not rich yet...
>
> Matteo G.
>
>
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