Devastating possible cheat for online play

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Then they check their PT database and see that they folded AA and KK preflop.

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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?

[stigmata]

Another serious route of attack against one of the ultra-high NL players could be a tempest-style surveillance type attack, using RF signals given out by the monitor to "read" the screen while parked in a van across the road. The amount of money at stake in some of these games surely makes this a legitimate threat, right? Or wrong?

[zer0 cool]

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none of this will matter once I hack the Gibson

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Ummmmm....

Just who do you think you are?

[Sponger15SB]

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none of this will matter once I hack the Gibson

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Ummmmm....

Just who do you think you are?

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fantastic.

[jba]

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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..

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"it would take over 100 years to process"

But it seems like everytime someone says this with confidence about their encryption protocol, someone goes and cracks it in a millionth of the time.


Refining my thoughts, a better route of a attack, once you had gained access to one of the key routers, would be just to track destination of partypoker traffic. You could then just look for simple windows vulnerabilites in a list of IP addresses playing on party. In fact, access to any relatively major router should suffice, given the number of people playing on party.