This study aims to identify, through qualitative research, the influence of COVID-19 on student online exam cheating, specifically e-cheating, during quarantine in Bangladesh university classes 2020. The researcher obtained primary data from 23 undergraduate students (13 males and ten females) who willingly responded a semi-structured interview via Messenger Interview. Using grounded theory ana...

Academic dishonesty, whether intentional cheating or plagiarism, or unintentional sharing of work or confusion about referencing, is nothing new to the college environment but is especially disturbing within nursing. The integrity of the nursing profession may, in fact, be jeopardized as students with the habit of cheating graduate and enter the field. This article discusses how educators, stud...

Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games are socio-technical phenomena that are both complex technological systems and complex societies. They are also highly lucrative businesses. In this paper we present initial findings from a case study of the MMORPG TIBIA which explores the business and social relationships generated by cheating practices. We characterize the economy of cheating as a ...

Security can mean different things in a different application context. For decades, gaming has been a major computer application with its own distinct characteristics, and in fact, online gaming is now one of the most popular applications on the Internet. However, there are few systematic treatments of security concerns in gaming. In this paper, we briefly trace the history of computer games. T...

Despite the importance of mutualism as a key ecological process, its persistence in nature is difficult to explain since the existence of exploitative, "cheating" partners that could erode the interaction is common. By analogy with the proposed policing strategy stabilizing intraspecific cooperation, host sanctions against non-N(2) fixing, cheating symbionts have been proposed as a force stabil...

We explore exploits possible for cheating in real-time, multiplayer games for both client-server and distributed, serverless architectures. We offer the first formalization of cheating in online games and propose an initial set of strong solutions. We propose a protocol that has provable anti-cheating guarantees, but suffers a performance penalty. We then develop an extended version of this pro...