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[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They did that here too, but students would use a cheat program that made it look like teachers were resetting it, but really the memory was safe

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

My memory is pretty hazy but the cheat application emulated the process that teachers used to do a system reset.

Iirc, it let you press menu, select reset, confirm, and showed the (fake) confirmation screen.

Also IIRC, you had to install it from Mirage OS, which I don't think was an OS (?) but rather an app that everyone had to play games from.

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