I've tried to check back in to swcpoker. I find only a windows client available that I have to run as administrator.
I've played a lot there in the past. But I have no first hand knowledge about what is really going on there. This is not an accusation but only how I think:
The last news I had about Micon he was facing prosecution. While I think this is wrong in every way, it still triggers a honeytrap alert in my mind.
I hope my fears are wrong. And I'm really writing this in hopes that someone will prove they are. I want to play!
I'm so sad that there is probably no way to prove this. But a safer client might help me assume the risk.
I don't think that there's some kind of federal agent usa honeypot in the seals client, but you're absolutely right that running executables that you can't see the code to on Windows is really dangerous. The best you could do is use some kind of virtual machine. I can't do this because my laptop is too crappy to run more than one one OS at a time

I think a lot of players will return when they get a safer client.