Nothing focusses the mind and pushes you to reassess your priorities more than barely escaping death.

A couple of years ago, the cosmos slapped me in the face when I survived a major automobile accident. The car I was driving was completely written off, crumpled up like a squeezebox. I had to push away airbags, slide through shards of atomized windshield, clamber over the console, and drag my ass out the passenger window — not even realizing at the time that the impact had fractured my sternum…

Like many of you, I continue to take a keen interest in reporting surrounding the recent FBI indictments of over thirty people alleged to have been involved in poker and sports bet cheating conspiracies in the USA.

In this blog I want to discuss the risks associated with advanced technology used to cheat at cards. Specifically, I’ll focus on the professional discipline required to use these methods, and the danger arising from systems that are “too perfect”.