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Re:The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton by mwint on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:21AM (#32238622)
The remote proctoring stuff is downright dystopian. I bought an extra laptop to do tests; most people can’t do that and have to install this garbage on their daily driver.

Of course, I guess most people don’t care.

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Re:The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton by nibbleshifter on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:48AM (#32239072)
What's hilarious is it doesn't seem to prevent exam cheating in any meaningful way anyway, according to some students I've chatted to.
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Re:The Dangers of Microsoft Pluton by mwint on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:56AM (#32239207)
It really doesn’t. I took an exam in a meeting room at work with huge TVs on the wall… they made me show them the TVs were “unplugged”, so I just unplugged some random thing from the wall and they were happy.

The TVs are hardwired, it’d be trivial to have an accomplice show answers or whatever on them.

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