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More seriously, what about people hacking key routers close to wherever the PP servers are. With enough time hackers should be able to crack the encryption protocol and listen into a certain percentage of hands, right? Or wrong?

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if the poker sites are using non-moronic encryption this is just not feasible. no one is using anything weaker than 128 bit encryption schemes that require brute force attacks to solve. there is no machine in the world that is capable of actually flipping through 2^128 values and even if there was it would take over 100 years to process them all.

the video camera thing, a trojan reading the history files, or picking up the electromagnetic radiation from the monitor would definitely be the way to go. and it would certainly work..