Ok.

For my dissertation, part of it is about finding possible threats to online gambling, relating to how a player can get some assurance that they are not gonna get cheated online. - either by a player, or host, intentionally or unintenionally.

A few obvious things I have:

-players could collude
-house could be corrupt
-software player installs could be buggy
-phishing (fake emails) could be sent asking players to install 'updates' which could be a trojan, telling players what cards they have
-players could use statistical software to aid them
-servers may crash
-may be problems with shuffle algorithm

and there may be a few more. Could people just give thier 2 cents, either by going into specifics on technical aspects (ie the ways in which the server could be attacked (ie by sniffing etc) OR and even better, suggest some new threats to online gambling, and if possible a possible solution to it?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Andy