How do we know we're not playing bots?

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Sometimes when I'm on party I like to talk to the other players, because I play pretty tight and in an effort to improve my game I'm not multitabling either, so there's a lot of down time. Most people are responsive, but sometimes I get people who don't say anything.

I'm wondering, is there any way for either myself or party to tell if these people are bots? For me, I would have to design some sort of Turing test for poker bothood. Does anyone know of something like this?

For party, its a different story. I looked through the fine print of party's terms and conditions and read somewhere that party can take screenshots of your desktop and look through the active processes that are running. But let's suppose a crafty programmer designs a bot and calls the bot "Microsoft Word 2003", and then minimizes it so that you can't see it on the screenshot and the process shows up as "Winword". How would party be able to detect this? Or, what if a programmer had 2 computers, ran party on one computer, and then used VNC with the bot software on the other computer? All that would show up in the processes is a VNC server, which looks harmless. Does party have more sophisticated defenses? Or are we doomed to face the possibility of playing against bot players?