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File Sent In Error From Absolute Poker?

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发表于 2007-10-21 00:22 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
Published: Saturday, October 20, 2007 mgowanbo.cc

Police and commercial investigations in prospect

As the Absolute Poker scandal trundled into the weekend, dubbed "Pokergate" by some observers, more detail emerged on the delivery of information which enabled an incensed player community to adduce sufficient evidence that something was terribly, and fraudulently wrong with an online poker tournament held by the online poker website.

Absolute distributed the following message widely to its player base:

"Dear valued player,

"Absolute Poker has identified an internal security breach that compromised our systems for a limited period of time. The cause of the breach has been determined and completely resolved. In addition, all necessary resources, both internal and external, have been engaged to ensure this does not happen again. Our investigation is not fully concluded, and we wish to thank the extended poker community for any and all assistance related to the matter.

"Game integrity has always and continues to be of the utmost importance at Absolute Poker. The Management of Absolute Poker is appalled by these findings, and is committed to our players and to the integrity of our site and the online poker industry.

"All players affected by the security breach will be identified during the audit process that has been initiated and all funds, including interest, will be returned. Absolute Poker would like to apologize for the recent events and is committed to diligently working with outside security firms, auditing firms, the extended poker community and the Kahnawake Gaming Commission to ensure the situation is entirely resolved.

"A comprehensive statement will be forthcoming shortly providing more details of the situation."

Players expressed doubts and even disbelief regarding the claimed lack of involvement of Scott Tomm by the company in press reports after the strong indications and evidence contained in a highly detailed xls file apparently mistakenly sent to a player by an Absolute staffer.

Asking for further information on the file, which lies at the heart of the massive expose by poker players in the Absolute Poker affair, gambling information portal 911 was told that an employee responsible for sending out the "smoking gun" spread sheet with confidential client information (and the server info of the suspect players leading to Absolute's own server) did so out of "laziness".

"Instead of looking up specific information that had been requested, he could not find this information and simply shot the whole spread sheet to a customer," 911 was informed by an unidentified executive at Absolute Poker, which advertises on the portal.

The executive added that the unnamed employee was terminated and Absolute Poker is working to ensure that such an instance never happens again....and significantly told the reporter that information launched to the customer "could potentially have been changed, according to management", though this is something that cannot be ascertained at this juncture.

"Scott Tomm had no involvement in this matter," the representative said, answering questions about the allegedly former Absolute executive.

Players were also sceptical of the general nature of the Absolute Poker statement regarding an involvement in the investigations, pointing out that no firm arrangement had so far been proposed, and that there were still several key unanswered questions, among them the company's earlier statements totally denying there was a problem and subsequently on chip dumping.

But players were better pleased by the firm's inclusion of an assurance that financial adjustments would be made: "All players affected by the security breach will be identified during the audit process that has been initiated and all funds, including interest, will be returned."

The Absolute Poker debacle continues to make the mainstream press headlines, carried by Associated Press, MSNBC and ABC:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3752500&page=1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21381022/

MSN.com had its own experts take a look at the controversial tournament information recreated in a YouTube video by the player community, and asked an online gambling security expert to comment.

Roy Cooke, who was head of security at the pioneering poker site Planetpoker.com for six years, told the news site, "(He) can see the cards, and you can put my name on that."

A second expert was the respected "Wizard of Odds" Michael Shackleford, a former actuary with the Social Security Administration who now has his own gambling information site. He said it was highly unlikely that Potripper's streak was simply attributable to good luck.

"It would be easier to buy a 6/49 lottery ticket in six different states, and hit the jackpot all six times," he said in the MSN.com article.

Initially Absolute Poker had denied that anything was wrong or that its system could have been breached.

Since then, however, the poker site's licensing body, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, has asked for an independent audit of the poker site. After that news broke on Thursday, the poker site began to change its approach.

Along with the statement from Absolute Poker to its customers, an anonymous employee came forward to talk to MSN.com about the situation. He told the news site that there had been a hacker - an employee trying to prove a point about the site who took it too far.

"This is literally a geek trying to prove to senior management that they were wrong, and he took it too far," the spokesperson told MSN.com.

He said the poker site acknowledges that there was a significant internal security breach whereby a resource who was "infinitely knowledgeable about the system" was able to get into the accounts in question, play on those accounts and see hole cards.

The security issue has been resolved and the company has identified serious internal communication issues that Absolute Poker is also working to resolve.

In summary - Absolute has confirmed that an employee compromised the integrity of the poker room by participating (and winning) poker tournaments while having the ability to review competing poker players face cards. A truly damning indictment.

AbsolutePoker is headquartered in a semi-autonomous Mohawk Indian territory outside of Montreal, Canada. Both the Quebec provincial police and officials at the Kahnawake Territory told ABCNEWS.com that they have launched investigations into the allegations.

Marco Johnson, 21, of Las Vegas was the player who started the community investigation rolling when he felt that he had been cheated in a tournament won by a player using the handle POTRIPPER. He was the one who received the detailed xls file that enabled an expert player community to unravel the alleged fraud.

"Basically, I took second place in a tournament, and there were just too many weird hands at the final table," Johnson told ABC NEWS.com. "My friends thought I got cheated and I e-mailed [AbsolutePoker] and asked for a hand history."

What he received instead was a document that included the hand histories of everyone involved in the tournament, their e-mail addresses and the IP address of their computers.

"It's so shady. Why would they send me this whole file? A regular hand history just shows the cards you had, but this was the master copy of a file in Excel. It showed 14 tables, every person at every table in the tournament. Instead of just seeing my cards, I could see everyone's," Johnson said.

"[Potripper] was cheating in the most obvious way. He was just a bad poker player and was playing very badly," said Serge Ravitch, a New York lawyer and professional poker player who moderates the Web site 2+2.com and was one of the first people Johnson trusted with the Excel file.

Johnson also shared the file with player and poker blogger Nat Arem, who looked past the hand histories to the IP address of the players.

The Excel document showed that at each table Potripper played, another user identified as #363 was present. Online players could not see him at the virtual table, but he apparently could seemingly see everyone's cards.

Potripper folded twice before #363 began watching, then did not fold once before the flop for nearly another half hour of play.

Arem traced the IP address of the observer back to the Kahnawake Gaming Commission, the collection of servers in Canada at which AbsolutePoker was based.

Further sleuthing seems to link that IP address to a part-owner of the company, Scott Tom, and the Potripper account to a former director of operations at AbsolutePoker named AJ Ripper, Johnson said.

"It looks like the Potripper account is registered to AJ Ripper and Scott Tom's e-mail turned up. But I can't say for sure that someone else wasn't using his account, or it wasn't someone else sitting at his computer," Johnson said.

Neither Ripper nor Scott could be reached by ABC NEWS.com.

Ravitch estimated that AbsolutePoker 'stole' between $500 000 and $1 million over a two-week period. "We know approximately when it started, but we can't say for sure."

He said the online poker community "came together in an unprecedented way" to investigate the allegations because "those concerned could not let it go unchecked."

The Kahnawake Gaming Commission, which hosts Absolute Poker, subsequently said it had hired an independent investigator to audit the company.

"It is essential that all online gaming and wagering is conducted in a fair and honest manner where customers are protected. The Kahnawake Gaming Commission is committed to ensuring fair and honest gaming," commission Chairman David Montour, said in a statement.

Quebec provincial police are also following the issue, and told ABC News they were looking into the matter but could not comment on a pending investigation.
 楼主| 发表于 2007-10-26 11:02 | 显示全部楼层
文件送交误差从绝对扑克?

出版:周六, 2007年10月20日mgowanbo.cc

警察和商业调查,在展望

为绝对扑克丑闻trundled到周末,被称为" pokergate "一些观察家,更详细地出现了对提供信息,使一个愤怒的玩家社区举出充分证据证明东西是可怕的,并利用虚开出了一个在线扑克锦标赛举行由在线扑克网站。

绝对分布式以下消息广为它的播放器基地:

"亲爱的有价值的参与者,

"绝对扑克已确定内部保安违反这个妥协,我们的金融体制,为在有限的时间内。造成这一违反已下决心彻底解决。此外,所有必要的资源,无论是内部和外部的,一直从事,以确保这没有再发生。我们的调查还没有完全结束,我们要感谢延长扑克社会的任何和所有相关援助,以这件事。

"游戏的完整性一直是并将继续成为的极端重要性,在绝对扑克。管理绝对扑克是惊骇这些研究结果,并致力于为我们的玩家,并以诚信的网站和在线扑克产业。

"所有球员受该安全漏洞会期间确定的审计过程中,已经开始和各项资金,包括利息,将被退回。绝对扑克想道歉,最近发生的一些事件,并决心勤奋工作,与外界保安公司,审计事务所,延长扑克社会和kahnawake博彩委员会,以确保有关的情况完全解决。

"一项全面的联合声明将在短期内即将提供更详尽的情况。 "

球员表示怀疑,甚至不相信就声称没有参与的斯科特tomm由该公司在新闻报道后,有力的迹象和证据,在一个高度详细格式文件显然是误送到一个球员,以绝对的职员。

要求提供进一步资料,档案,其中核心部分就是大量揭露,由扑克选手中,绝对扑克内政,赌博信息门户911获悉,一名雇员负责发送出的"烟雾弹"的风声,资产负债表与机密客户资料(和服务器信息的犯罪嫌疑人的球员导致绝对的自己的服务器) ,这样做出来的"懒人" 。

" ,而不是寻找具体的信息已被要求,他无法找到这方面的资料,并简单地击落了整个扩散板,以顾客, " 911获悉,由一个身份不明的长官绝对扑克,其中广告上的门户。

行政机关补充说,无名职工终止和绝对扑克是工作,以确保此类的一个实例永远不会再发生… … ,并显着告诉记者,信息发射到客户服务"可能已经改变,根据管理" ,虽然这是一件不能确定在这个时刻。

"斯科特tomm没有参与这件事, "这位代表说,在回答记者提出的有关涉嫌前绝对长官。

球员们也持怀疑态度的一般性质绝对扑克声明一事介入调查指出,没有确切的安排,到目前为止,已有人建议,并表示,目前尚有几个关键悬而未决的问题,其中包括该公司先前的声明完全否认有问题,并随后对芯片倾倒。

但球员们更高兴,由该公司列入保证财务会立即作出: "所有球员受该安全漏洞会期间确定的审计过程中,已经开始和各项资金,包括利息,将被遣返。 "

绝对扑克崩溃将继续尽主流报章的头条新闻,进行了由美联社记者, msnbc和美国广播公司:

http://abcnews.go.com/technology/story?id=3752500&page=1

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21381022/

msn.com有自己的专家来看看,在具争议性的比赛资料,再在youtube视频播放器,并请了一个网上赌博公司安全专家就此发表评论。

罗伊库克任负责人的安全建立在创业的扑克网站planetpoker.com 6年来,对新闻网站, " (他)可以看到卡,你可以把我的名字。 "

第二次专家是尊敬的"向导赔率"迈克尔shackleford ,前精算师,并与社会治安管理的人,现在有自己的赌博信息网站。他说,这是极不可能的potripper的线条只是归因于好运气。

"它会更容易购买6 / 49彩票在6个不同的国家,并将其打倒在幸运之神的所有6次,他说: "在msn.com文章。

起初绝对扑克否认什么是错的,或者其系统可能已遭破坏。

自那时起,然而,扑克网站的发牌机构, kahnawake博彩委员会,要求独立审计的扑克网站。之后的新闻传出后对周四,扑克网站开始改变过去的做法。

随着声明绝对扑克其对客户的匿名雇员出面谈话, msn.com有关情况。他说,新闻网站有一个黑客-一名雇员试图证明这一点对于网站的人,又把它走得太远。

"这是从字面上厂商试图证明向高级管理人员认为,他们错了,而他又把它太出格" ,这位发言人告诉msn.com 。

他说,扑克网站承认,有一个重大的内部安全缺口,即一种资源被"无限了解有关的系统" ,能够迅速进入帐户中的问题,发挥对这些账户,并见孔卡。

安全问题已经得到解决和该公司已经确定了严重的内部沟通问题,绝对扑克还正在努力解决的问题。

总之-绝对已证实,一名雇员损害了完整的扑克室参加(打赢)扑克比赛,而有能力的审查竞扑克选手面对卡。一个真正确凿的起诉书。

absolutepoker是总部设在一个半自治的莫霍克印度领土以外的加拿大蒙特利尔举行。无论是魁北克省的警察和政府官员出席kahnawake领土告诉abcnews.com说,他们已展开调查这些指控。

马科约翰逊, 21岁的拉斯维加斯是球员,开始了社会调查,滚动时,他认为他已骗了,在比赛中赢得的一个球员用处理potripper 。他是一个人收到了详细的格式文件,使一个专家玩家社区拆除涉嫌欺诈。

"基本上,我是排名第二,在比赛中,有太多怪异的手在最后表, "约翰逊说,美国广播公司news.com 。 "我的朋友们还以为我被骗了,我电子邮箱[ absolutepoker ] ,并要求提供第一手的历史"

他所收到的,反而是一个文件,其中包括手史人人参与比赛,他们的电子邮件地址和ip地址,使用自己的计算机。

"那真是太阴暗。他们为什么要送我这个整个文件?定期第一手历史显示卡你,但是这是底本的一个文件中出类拔萃。这表明, 14桌,每一个人在每一个表比赛。而不是只看到我的卡,我可以看到每个人的, "约翰逊说。

" [ potripper ]是在欺骗,在最明显的办法。他简直就是一个坏的扑克牌选手,并正在发挥非常不好,说: "哔叽ravitch ,设在纽约的律师和专业扑克球员温和派网站2 +2 。 com和被其中的第一人约翰逊亲信与excel文件。

约翰逊也有同感档案与球员和扑克博客的nat arem ,谁看过去的历史,一方面向ip地址的球员。

该excel文件表明,在每个表potripper发挥,另一个用户确定为# 363名出席了会议。在线播放器无法看到他在虚拟表,但他显然可以看到,似乎每个人的身份证。

potripper折叠两次才# 363开始看,然后没有褶皱,一旦前触发器将近另一半小时的发挥。

arem追查ip地址观察员回给kahnawake博彩委员会,收集的服务器在加拿大举行absolutepoker依据。

进一步sleuthing似乎纽带ip地址,以部分所有者的公司,斯科特汤姆和potripper帐户,以一名前任董事的业务absolutepoker命名的aj碎尸,约翰逊说。

"这看起来像potripper帐号注册成功的aj碎尸和斯科特汤姆的电子邮件出现。但我不能肯定地说,别人是不会用他的帐户,或者是不是别人坐他的电脑, "约翰逊说。

既不开膛手斯科特,也没有能够达成由美国广播公司news.com 。

ravitch估计absolutepoker '偷' , 50万元和100万元以上的两个星期内。 "我们知道大约何时开始,但我们不能肯定地说"

他称,在线扑克社区"走到一起是一种前所未有的方式" ,以调查这些指控,因为"有关人士不能让它听之任之"

该kahnawake博彩委员会,其中东道主绝对扑克,后来说,它已聘请了一个独立的调查员来审计该公司。

"这是极为重要的是所有在线游戏和下注,是在公平和诚实地进行客户得到保护。该kahnawake博彩委员会将致力确保公平和诚实的游戏, "委员会主席大卫montour在一份声明中说。

魁北克省警方也跟踪这个问题,并告诉美国广播公司消息,他们被查究此事,但未能就以作进一步调查。
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