Most standardized tests have a fee: the SAT costs $50, the GRE costs $200, and the NY Bar Exam costs $250. This year, the bar exam came at a much larger cost for recent law school graduates — their privacy.
Many in-person events have had to find ways to move to the internet this year, and exams are no exception. We’d like to think that online exams shouldn’t be a big deal. It’s 2020. We have a pretty good grasp on how security and privacy should work, and it shouldn’t be too hard to implement sensible anti-cheating features.
It shouldn’t be a big deal, but for one software firm, it really is.
The NY State Board of Law Examiners (NY BOLE), along with several other state exam boards, chose to administer this year’s bar exam via ExamSoft’s Examplify. If you’ve missed out on the Examplify Saga, following the Diploma Privilege for New York account on Twitter will get you caught up pretty quickly. Essentially, according to its users, Examplify is an unmitigated disaster. Let’s start with something that should have been settled twenty years ago.
Did They Just Email Me My Password?
Passwords are stored in plaintext. Seriously- how is this still a thing? Users report being able to call customer support and retrieve not only their usernames but their passwords as well. Others had their passwords emailed to them. If a customer support rep can read your password to you over the phone, you’ve got a real problem. It would only take a bit of social engineering for somebody to get into your account, and if you re ..
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