I'm assuming that the program doesn't do all the marking -- at some point, a human being has to pick up the output from this anti-cheating program and check the two.
Making machines available for attack on the net does nothing to increase the security of a product.
In a perfect world, it would, but the fact is that the people with the smarts to find the security holes in a product are not the ones that respond to such "cracker challenges". Every once in a while, the Hacker News Network has a news item on some (cr|h)acker challenge, in which they decry such activities much more eloquently than I can. I'm pretty sur ethey have a Buffer Overflow about it too....
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I'm assuming that the program doesn't do all the marking -- at some point, a human being has to pick up the output from this anti-cheating program and check the two.
Of course, if two people think alike...
Making machines available for attack on the net does nothing to increase the security of a product.
In a perfect world, it would, but the fact is that the people with the smarts to find the security holes in a product are not the ones that respond to such "cracker challenges". Every once in a while, the Hacker News Network has a news item on some (cr|h)acker challenge, in which they decry such activities much more eloquently than I can. I'm pretty sur ethey have a Buffer Overflow about it too....