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Originally Posted by NerdSuperfly
you might lose the best fish, if you rule out, that any login from a different location is okay.
Nobody is suggesting that. You just confirm it with them.
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Originally Posted by NerdSuperfly
there are many ppl out there, who don't have a credit card and might be need help, for a deposit.
They can do a bank transfer and they presumably have a bank debit card. If they don't have a bank account all then its because they are underage.
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Originally Posted by NerdSuperfly
ppl also think, that the insta cash out is a security leak. again, it might helped in this very specific cases,
so overall, the whole 'make it safer' ideas would only help a small number of ppl,
and
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Originally Posted by krazykarter
(Yes, I'm aware that for the cases specific to this thread emails were not affected, but that has not been and will not always be the case for other situations.)
Start plugging leaks and the total number of hacks will go down. That it seems daunting to plug all the leaks is not a reason not to start.
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but imagine you own a business. eg a club and you provide lockers,
the analogy would hold if all the lockers had the same key, the suspect was known to be Polish but they were unable to cooperate with Polish law enforcement because the club is not licensed there.
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Originally Posted by NerdSuperfly
the only real option so far, is some 'opt in', if you never change location and/or deposit option. but to be fair, so far it seems the victims didn't neither use PIN, nor SMS verification (which are both free), so i doubt the potential victims would opt in anyway
I had no idea either option existed until I saw this thread on 2p2. Users should be being prompted to set these up as they login instead of the joke first pet's name questions.
I know I've been harsh in this thread but I think it has been worth my time because I hope something I've said will be used by Pokerstars to improve things and I have confidence that people want that to happen. I have a betfair account but don't, for example, participate in all the iPoker bots threads because I don't believe there is any point or that anyone cares. And also I approve of Pokerstars keep the games running in the grey and black markets - it just has to be done in a way that doesn't affect customers in other countries.