Numlock News: February 16, 2022 • Honeypot, Biomass, Fake Faces
By Walt Hickey Honeypots Honorlock is a test proctoring service used by a number of universities that last year raised $25 million in venture capital funding. One interesting part of the business? “Seed sites” that are fake websites with the precise wording of exam questions that will rat out a person googling specific questions in a classic honeypot counterintelligence scheme. One computer science student found roughly a dozen such sites, five of which continue to operate with names like Grade Pack and Quiz Lookup. Perhaps this escalation will do for today’s high schoolers what the programmable TI-84 did for a generation of students who picked up rudimentary knowledge of BASIC in the mid-2000s…
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3 years ago · 7 likes · Walter Hickey
