Better range might have helped them pull it off.
However, Chinese police have detained three individuals after they were caught using wireless technology to cheat on that country’s high-stakes college entrance exam that has 10 million students competing for 5.7 million slots. Reuters reports:
Police in Jiutai, in the northeastern province of Jilin, became suspicious when a mini-bus remained parked outside a school hosting the exam on Thursday, (the news agency) Xinhua said. Inside, they found three people, “two of them staring at a computer screen and talking into a walkie-talkie,” Xinhua said.
A student in the examination hall used a wireless microphone to read out the questions and received the answers from the van, Xinhua quoted their confessions as saying. The three had charged the student 12,000 yuan ($1,500) for the service, it added.
This foiled escapade was by no means an isolated episode.
Police had found some 42 pairs of so-called “cheating shoes” with transmitting and reception ability, selling for about 2,000 yuan each, in a flat in Shenyang, the provincial capital, state media said on Thursday, adding that they — along with “cheating wallets” and hats — had proved popular this year.
Of course, this story just happens to come from China. It’s not as though we don’t have plenty of cheating to write about here at home.
A hot topic of late here at Network World has been cheating on IT certification exams.
And my colleague John Fontana recently took a look at how disgraced cycling champ Floyd Landis, accused of cheating to win the Tour de France, is using the Internet in an attempt to clear his name.
