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    [–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The easy way involves looking at the devices and drivers you have installed. Things like a VirtualBox display or a SPICE guest driver are dead giveaways. next, they might look at your processor and see if it has as many cores as it should, but that's more involved.

    [–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Holy shit why is it even getting anywhere near that nosy? I didn't know it was anything like that. And I even worked for them for a little while.

    [–] 520@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Holy shit why is it even getting anywhere near that nosy?

    Because it also serves as an anti-cheat...in the most literal sense. It is trying to make sure students can't cheat by having other things open like answer pages or Google.

    [–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Oh, duh. That seems a little obvious in retrospect. But damn, they go pretty harsh then.

    [–] 520@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The qualifications industry is heavily reputation based. If they get a reputation for letting cheaters slide, their reputation tanks among employers and therefore no one will want that qualification.

    And these qualifications are expensive as hell too.