Technically advanced ways to cheat on an exam

The students of the whole world start a tense time - a session. "Prosharennaya" young people no longer use their inks in ink, and uses modern technical means from the arsenal of James Bond.

For example, recently in Thai University Rangsit (a prestigious medical school with a very high competition) exposed three students who used self-made (custom-made) electronic equipment: hidden video cameras with glasses and smart watches with a GSM module for receiving SMS.
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Any quick-witted student will immediately understand how the camera-clock bundle works.

Hidden camcorder took the exam tickets and transmitted the video to the computer of an accomplice (it has not yet been found). Having received the picture, the accomplice sent the customer a text message with the correct answer. Photos of gadgets confiscated from students, published on his Facebook rector Rangsit University.




The rector explained that the gadgets were seized at the entrance exam in biology. He also said that each student paid $ 23,000 (!) For making spyware gadgets. This is a considerable amount for such equipment, although qualified doctors in the private medical sector in Thailand earn a lot and can easily pay for their investments in education in several months of work.

The glasses are made elegantly: the masters managed to fit the video camera, the transmitter, the battery, etc. into the glasses handles, even the designers of Google Glass can envy.



As they said on local television, the three applicants are blacklisted and will never become doctors at Rangsit University.

Soon, such equipment will become cheaper and go to the mass market. It seems that universities will have to search students before an exam, prohibit glasses and watches (in Australia, it is already forbidden to wear smart watches for school graduation exams), and also put a jammer in the exam room to silence radio frequencies.



For example, during the All-China entrance exams, Gaocao (pictured above) from last year began to use drones with radio frequency scanners . The photo clearly shows the antenna on the multicopter.



The optimal flight altitude of the drone is from 100 to 200 m above the field where the exam is held.



But students still come up with new tricks. Manufacturers have noticed the demand and release gadgets specifically designed for exams, including Bluetooth headphones and glasses with a wireless microphone . The principle of operation is about the same as that of glasses with a video camera, only you need to read the ticket text out loud, and then hear the dictated answer.



However, such a scheme is well known from the Soviet film “Operation Y and Other Adventures of Shurik” 50 years ago.

But there are unusual gadgets. For example, the Invisible Watch doesn’t show anything suspicious, only the current time, but through special glasses any content that was previously uploaded becomes visible (upd: comments to the article indicate that it’s easy to make such glasses yourself, the article was published in Geektimes.)



The variety of spy gadgets is impressive, but it will be really hard to fight off cheating when wireless neurointerfaces and bioimplants are becoming popular.