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I worked these days on a “Facebook Connect” implementation. While working on it, I suddenly had a revelation: this Facebook Connect it’s an invitation to phishing!

Let’s take a look at Digg.com, a website that uses Facebook connect. When you click on the button: “Connect with Facebook”, a pop-up window like in the screen below will appear:

Problem is, that even a script kiddie can very easily emulate this pop-up window. It took me only 1/2 hours to get this button to work (click on it, works only on CSS3 browsers):

I’m wondering, how many time would need somebody really interested in phishing accounts to setup a perfect clone and start asking for “Facebook connections”? 2 hours? 3 hours?

People think that this is not so bad, as long as the phisher’s website has nothing to offer, but a smart phisher will be persuasive enough in order to make the people think that they should provide their login credentials. For example the phisher could pretend that he gives on his website the next lottery’s winning numbers.

Very, very bad for Facebook. Facebook really, really sucks with this.

I think that everyone knows something about “sure bets”. These are bets that, no matter who will win, you will gain. Of course, it’s quite impossible to find such bets at the same betting house, but you can bet on a quote at a bookmaker, and on another quote at another bookmaker.

However, I’ve uncovered the most easiest method to play on “sure bets”. It involves some risks, but it is quite sure. The secret is to combine pre-match bets with live bets. Let’s say we have a match with the following quotes:

1: 3,20 | X: 3,20 | 2: 2,10

Ok, let’s suppose that we want to bet 100$. We all know that if we bet 33.33% on each result, we will lose. If we try to equally share the risks, we will equally lose. In order to win we should have something like this:

1: 3,20 | X: 5,25 | 2: 2,10

But of course, no bookmaker will offer us such a wonderful opportunity. No bookmaker, except the bookmakers offering live betting!

Whoever plays live betting knows that the quotes are stable only as long as the result remains 0-0. However, statistically speaking, the 0-0 is the most rare football result. This means that when a team will score, the live X quote will instantly move from 3,20 to over 5,25. And that’s it! Place the bet and you will surely won something!

But remember, you must enter in the live bet having already placed separate bets on 1 and on 2 (or just place a bet on 1 or 2, if possible).  And your bets must be arbitraged. Just open an Excel and do the math. So, the secret is to bet on 1 and 2 and simply wait for the X quote during the live bet to become “sure bet”!

Ok, so after few weeks when I was in the World Cup fever, it’s time to play again. Taking into account that my betting system proved to be so succesfull, I have started a new season with a more consistent bank: 200 RON.

Today I played on 3 matches from the Europa League preliminary round:

Gefle IF vs. NSI Runavik 1 @ 1.08
Dundalk vs. Grevenmacher 1 @ 1.20
Ruch Chorzow vs. Shakhtior Karagandy 1/x @ 1.05

Combined quote: 1.36, stake: 66 RON. Bet won!

New bank: 223,76 RON (+11,88%)