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Cheating on Online Exams
The Guardian - United Kingdom, Jul 3, 2001

There must have been a few headaches at the exam board Edexcel over the news that one of their A-level maths papers was selling for up to pounds 400 on the black market. But awarding bodies are having to face up to potentially far greater security breaches as they venture further into online assessment.

So much information is now held on computer and security systems that organisations are facing an uphill struggle to contain what many fear is an internet crime wave. High stakes will always attract fraud and exam-board data now joins internet banking, e-commerce and the Pentagon as a target for ambitious hackers....


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