IP: what time zone are you in?

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From a charter IPer


This scheme is pretty clever!  Of course, it doesn't address the East Coast
market, but one can take the tests in Europe too.  I took the computer 
science GRE in Switzerland (got a perfect score too :-).  That's a six 
hour time difference!  It never occurred to me to make notches in my pencil
to record the answers ...


I'm not sure what the charges are for prosecuting such a thing.  
Kobayashi's test-takers' answers are not copyrighted by ETS:
the test takers are not given the answers together with a copyright notice.


Manny




College Test Cheaters Arrested


Federal prosecutors in New York say a California man has been
arrested on charges of operating an elaborate scheme to help
prospective graduate school students cheat on admission exams.
Prosecutors say George Kobayashi ran a company that provided
test-takers with correct answers in code on pencils that the
students carried into the exam with them. Authorities say
Kobayashi paid a team of experts to take each exam in New York
City using assumed names. These experts then telephoned the
correct answers to Kobayashi's office in Los Angeles, where the
answers were quickly coded onto pencils by Kobayashi's employees
and then provided to the cheating students. The scheme worked
because of a three-hour time difference between the cities.