The UK and Ireland Poker Blog has an interesting bit of news people may want take note of. It seems several poker rooms store your username and password unencrypted in the registry on your computer. That’s not too big of an issue if you’re on a single user machine but when you introduce the possibility of a virus or trojan horse program that could swipe your info and begin making cashouts on your account the issue takes on a whole different level of severity.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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Hi Bill,
I was unnable to reproduce the situation described on that blog. I had installed some clients of the ipoker network, and in each case the password is encrypted (not the username).
I tried it with noble poker and cdpoker.. both were vulnerable (last month).. Hopefully they will get their house in order (or have already done so).
cheers for the link Bill :)
hmm - I just installed another iPoker client [poker77O] and low and behold - Plaintext Password.
time for an online petition? (what do you think Bill? - It is also bound to lead to visitors to the hosting site:) )