[LVGamb00ler]

Whatever Party does to try an prevent people from collecting HH's can be circumvented if someone is willing to spend enough time/money to do so.

Someone could simply create a device to read the digital signal sent to the LCD screen and scrape the screen with no software running on the poker client host. Party would be unable to detect this.

A robot could be created by combining the above device with another device that outputs the same signals (under the control of a 2nd computer as above) as a mouse and plugging that into the mouse port. Party would be unable to distinguish this from a human operating the mouse (assuming the programmer was smart enough to use some form of randomization when selecting which mouse co-ordinates to supply when clicking the mouse buttons).

As for Party tracking you by IP address....that is about the simplest surveillance method to circumvent (for the knowledgeable).

I don't know the specifics of how a virtual machine (running Windows) handles certain details, but it should appear to the Party servers as multiple unique computers, thus allowing someone to collect HH's from many tables using only one computer.

There are also several ways to conceal software running on the poker client machine that are a lot easier than any of the above methods. I suggest you search for information about rootkits if you're interested.

G'luck all,
LVGamb00ler