The Security of Gambling and Gambling with Security: Hacking, Law Enforcement and Public PolicyFootnote*

^*This artice was first published in French in Criminologie, Volume 39, Number 2, 2006. It was originally entitled ‘La Security du Jeu et le Jeu de la Securité: Piratage, Loi et Politique Publique’, and is reproduced here with kind permission of the Journal.

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