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Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by sandworm101 on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:20PM (#27788070)
You must not have seen a modern home cheating rig. The student read/scrolls through the entire test to read each question, as is recommended. A small camera that sees the screen transmits the questions to a team in another room. Each team member works on one question at a time. A single person then communicates the prepared answers back to the test taker via an earpiece, one small enough that it isn't detectable on the camera. Such a rig costs a few hundred dollars at most.

Another common trick: looking at your keyboard isn't cheating. Any small display secreted on your keyboard will go unnoticed. You will just look like you aren't a great typist, someone who needs to look at the keys.

Want to go real hardcore? Cut into your laptop and send the screen/keyboard/mouse signals to a different monitor. Then you can have an actor sit in front of the webcam pretending to take the test. I doubt they are correlating keypress sounds to characters appearing on the screen... yet. As any security expert would tell you: if the attacker has unfettered access to your hardware then all bets are off.

Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by SiempreViernes on Friday July 09, 2021 @04:48PM (#27788319)
How much does the team cost?
Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by sandworm101 on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:25PM (#27788716)
That would depend on the level of expertise you need. To pass a highschool calc exam, probably less than 100$. To have someone sit the LSAT for you in person, probably in the low five figures. I've never been involved with people actually being paid for such things but they do happen. Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to get her daughter unlimited time on the SAT. Paying to have someone actually stand in would have certainly cost more.
Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by silexia on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:24PM (#27789619)
The team could just be your own friends in the class. Each one of you gets a turn to take the test with the others helping find answers. No cost.
Re:Protect student privacy: ban eproctoring by pjbeam on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:07PM (#27788522)
This is one of those situations in which it pays to have likeminded friends.