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Improper Use of Tech #234-C: Test Cheating

It never fails. Whenever technology is created to better our lives, someone comes up with a way to exploit it. Granted, it's usually a creative exploitation, such as in the case of students in Rome, Italy, who have allegedly been using their mobile phones to text message test answers or even scan in images of the exams.

Thanks to some military technology however, The Enrico Tosi Technical Institute in Northern Italy school may have a solution that could potentially prevent similar occurrences in schools all over the world.

A device call the C-Guard, jams the phone signals in a 262-foot (80-meters for our European friends) radius in enclosed spaces, thereby reaffirming our faith in the old adage, "Cheaters never win".

Well, okay...sometimes they win, but they almost always get caught.

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