Tag: CHEATING

"People think that if they eradicate Ashley Madison, they'll eradicate infidelity," Biderman says. "Companies like Google and Microsoft are playing Big Brother and they're not telling you what you're doing. It's almost like, if Noel touched it, they censor it." Founder of affair-enabling website AshleyMadison.com Noel Biderman laments the difficulty he's had advertising on major sites ...

Cell phones, particularly fancy new smartphones, have become the bane of teachers across the nation -- not just because they provide an in-class distraction, but also because they've made it increasingly easy to cheat on exams. Officials in Taiwan have devised a solution to catch cheaters in the act using spectrum analyzers. Officials monitoring exams for government jobs used Rohde and Schwarz ...

He easily could've vandalized her car, burned her wardrobe, or slept with her best friend. [Ed. note: Or comported himself like an adult?] Instead, the recently cuckolded Reddit user Contra3 spent some time rating movies on his (presumably ex-) girlfriend's Netflix account, until he arrived at the perfect combination of automatically generated recommendations -- with 'Bambi,' of course, providing ...

University of Central Florida professor Richard Quinn has been a professional educator for over 20 years. Despite his decades of experience, Quinn recently delivered an unprecedented lecture that he "hoped [he] would never have to give." Prior to the lecture (which is currently going viral), Quinn had grown concerned about widespread cheating after he recognized an unlikely pattern in his class's ...

Looking to conduct surveillance on that philandering boyfriend of yours? Well, for about 18 hours yesterday, you could've downloaded something called 'Secret SMS Replicator' -- a new app that, once planted on someone else's Android smartphone, will secretly forward their text messages to another phone. Created by DLP Mobile, 'Replicator' hit the Android market Wednesday, much to the horror of ...

Florida's tight gubernatorial race between Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott turned controversial Monday night, thanks to one foolhardy aide and a Droid smartphone. Prior to Monday's CNN-sponsored debate, both candidates had agreed not to use notes in their volleys back and forth. During a commercial break from the action, however, Sink's makeup artist showed her a brief message ...

Share We knew that Facebook has torn apart many a marriage across the pond. But according to a recent survey, it's become just as problematic for couples here in the US, too. A survey of high-profile divorce lawyers throughout the country reveals that increasing numbers of quarrelsome couples are now using Facebook data as evidence of marital infidelity. As attorney Mary Cay Trace told ...

When you think of Stanford University, you probably think of a pristine campus shining as a beacon of academic excellence on the West Coast. But, believe it or not, there's a seedy trend happening at this California school. According to The New York Times, cheating is running amok in the university's computer science classes. Last year, copy-and-paste cheaters made up about 22-percent of the ...

There's no question that the social networking boom has led to an increase in cheating spouses. But what might be surprising is that social networking is being more commonly used in the courtroom -- as evidence. According to the New York Post, a recent survey from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers shows that 81-percent of the lawyers questioned said they've used evidence from social ...

Ithaca may be "Gorges," but an ugly e-mail blunder has recently rocked the New York college town, eliciting a region-wide cringe. A married consultant employed at Cornell University, known as John, recently sent a long series of salacious e-mails to his mistress, a Cornell Business School employee named Lisa (also married). And now the entire school knows about it. See, in a recent email to his ...

From using other people's notes to consulting previous exams, students have always explored methods of supplementing their studious endeavors. Technology and the Internet just make it easier to find such materials, and in some circumstances, to blatantly cheat. According to the New York Times, Web sites such as Cramster and Course Hero are flourishing because they provide immediate access to ...

Does it ever feel like the rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer? Well, they do, and this isn't helping: namely, a new French Web site that lets children pay for older students to do their homework for them. The site, which goes live on Thursday, is called FaisMesDevoirs.com, which translates to DoMyHomework.com in English (yes, someone already owns the URL). Using the ...

Hallmark cards and candy hearts aren't the only products that see a bump in sales around Valentine's day. Spyware and tracking devices usually see a boost as spouses hope to catch their partners red-handed during the holiday, when private investigators say cheating partners are most likely to make contact with a secret lover. Although the holiday usually means a wave of new clients for ...

The great philosophical debate of the next decade will certainly be, "Is having sex with a robot hooker cheating?" Our friends over at Asylum debate the issue in the video above -- be warned it's NSFW (not safe for work) or appropriate for children. We've gotten used to robots that cook, clean, and pour us alcoholic beverages, and we all know that the next step is clearly robot ...

Over the past two years, the largely unregulated business of online poker has seen two major cheating scandals, according to a joint report by '60 Minutes' and the Washington Post. Players on the poker site Absolute Poker uncovered the first of the two scandals in August of 2007, when one apparently novice player, known as "Grey Cat," began consistently winning high-stakes games. After ...