• wheeldawg
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    1 year ago

    I would love to know how that’s possible.

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      1 year ago

      The easy way involves looking at the devices and drivers you have installed. Things like a VirtualBox display or a SPICE guest driver are dead giveaways. next, they might look at your processor and see if it has as many cores as it should, but that’s more involved.

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        1 year ago

        Holy shit why is it even getting anywhere near that nosy? I didn’t know it was anything like that. And I even worked for them for a little while.

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          1 year ago

          Holy shit why is it even getting anywhere near that nosy?

          Because it also serves as an anti-cheat…in the most literal sense. It is trying to make sure students can’t cheat by having other things open like answer pages or Google.

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            1 year ago

            Oh, duh. That seems a little obvious in retrospect. But damn, they go pretty harsh then.

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              The qualifications industry is heavily reputation based. If they get a reputation for letting cheaters slide, their reputation tanks among employers and therefore no one will want that qualification.

              And these qualifications are expensive as hell too.