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Originally Posted by Taknikatel
If someone is smart enough to make a botring and cheat, he is smart enough that he uses this. It's not like they will get any new ideas here. Anyone with basic poker knowledge can figure out this would be the way to cheat. It's not like we are talking about anything revolutionary here.
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It's nothing new at all and you are right. The information on cheating is googleable and to take all these cheating discussion sites down would be impossible. All you can do is if you are a major poker room is to have the staff like pokerstars software specialist trawling the net every so often to block these bots or card sharing plus whole card readers. It would be unrealistic to say any poker site could wipe every cheater off the site as the programmer who scans and blocks this stuff is only as good as his last bot find and someone out their will always be better at finding anyway to cheat.
I did computer security for some major UK banks about 5 years ago and it surprised me that Barclays Banks anti fraud software got targeted and it took me a few days to block all the holes. You will never keep 100% on top of fraud but programmers and hackers are using better tools and the Internet at their finger tips to scam all day long. It happens in all industries.