MATH
Guessing C For Every Answer Is Now Enough To Pass The New York State Algebra Exam
Proctorio detected NONE of the cheating students
On the Efficacy of Online Proctoring using PROTORIO
How to Cheat of Proctorio- Tips, Tricks and Guide
https://www.assignments4u.com/how-to-cheat-on-proctorio/
Tech companies promised schools an easy way to detect cheaters during the pandemic. Students responded by demanding schools stop policing them like criminals in the first place.
https://www.businessinsider.com/proctorio-silencing-critics-fueling-student-protests-against-surveilalnce-edtech-schools-2020-10
Students Are Easily Cheating ‘State-of-the-Art’ Test Proctoring Tech
https://www.vice.com/en/article/3an98j/students-are-easily-cheating-state-of-the-art-test-proctoring-tech
EFF, College Student Sue Proctorio Over DMCAs On Fair Use
https://www.techdirt.com/2021/04/23/eff-college-student-sue-proctorio-over-dmcas-fair-use-critique-tweets-software/
Proctorio’s Anti-Cheating Software Exposes Students To Hackers Say Dutch Education Officials
https://www.techdirt.com/2021/12/22/proctorios-anti-cheating-software-exposes-students-to-hackers-say-dutch-education-officials/
liminalsunset:
The purpose of these kinds of tools isn’t to prevent cheating. Just like most DRM schemes, the purpose of these tools is the same as any other external consultant – so that the administration or people in charge of the school can offload the responsibilities related to any cheating that may happen to an external party, and if questioned, can respond that “reasonably secure technical measures have been taken to guarantee the integrity of the exam”. Whether the integrity of the exams is actually guaranteed is immaterial, because the company that made the nanny software went on the record and took responsibility, and/or by splitting the responsibility, the school admin and the nanny software vendor can point fingers at each other and the responsibility essentially disappears like it usually does.
You can see this with most other security theater type things. As long the “general public” is unaware that they have been lied to, they will accept this kind of positioning as gospel, and not look into it further. For the most part, as expected, the world turns around just fine without real security because systems tend to be robust to a certain level of bad actors doing selfish and small scale bad things like exam cheating, and as long as nobody’s feelings are hurt, it’s all fine.
AussieWog
Just like most DRM schemes … offload the responsibilities
Funny you mention this. I remember a senior staffer at a large games publisher talking about this back in the late 00’s.
He said, quite candidly, that all of the execs at EA, Activision etc. all knew that technology like SecuROM was incredibly ineffective at reducing piracy.
They all paid millions of dollars in licence fees to use it, though, so that they when an investor asked them what they were doing to protect their IP, they had a “good” answer.