Iraq Shuts Down Internet In Entire Country To Prevent Exam Cheating (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Iraqi government has ordered ISPs to shut down Internet access in the entire country to prevent exam cheating for Iraq's official exams for secondary and high schools. This is the second year in a row when Iraq does this, after the same thing happened in 2015. Companies like Akamai and Dyn also noted the government's poor decision on Twitter. It appears that Iraqi officials never heard of signal jammers and video cameras to combat exam cheating. The country's Internet went dark May 14-16th, between 05:00 AM and 08:00 AM GMT. An Iraqi ISP leaked on Facebook the content of an email it received from state officials.

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Re:Jammers and video cameras?

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Are these countermeasures a normal fixture in American schools now?

No. We're handling this by providing even more internet to the classroom. More pipes, more antennas, more bandwidth, more protocols, you name it. If you think that's crazy, you should see how we want to handle mass-shootings at schools.