[CQ-Contest] Contest Loggers to reduce cheating

[David Robbins K1TTT]

Even better... each qso must be logged to a central server in real time.  If
the central server decides there is a logging irregularity it sends an
electric shock back to the user.  Each irregularity detected increases the
current until the user self destructs and fails to operate.  It works for my
dog, it should work for contesters also!


David Robbins K1TTT
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Eric Hilding
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 03:35
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Cc: 'Jim Neiger'
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest Loggers to reduce cheating
> 
> I need to add a few things about my suggestion for Contest Logger
> modifications to reduce cheating.
> 
> 
> 
> In addition to recording any internal packet module use, similar to how
> WriteLog handles the splitting up of audio files into manageable file size
> chunks while recording a contest, here's what I envision as *one*
> possibility.  BTW, this would eliminate any post-contest 'massaging' of
> logs
> except for maybe the last one hour.  If a cheater attempts in any way to
> screw around with his or her computer's internal time-clock during the
> event, the program could self-destruct and fail to operate that contest
> module any longer.
> 
> 
> 
> Let's use a 24 hour Contest as an example.
> 
> 
> 
> Once every hour, the special add-on module auto-writes an encrypted log
> for
> *that* segment of the contest.
> 
> 
> 
> At the end of the next hour, it auto-writes the next sement, and so on.
> Any
> attempt to prevent the auto-writing would internally nuke the program.
> 
> 
> 
> Before the final hour QSO is logged, yes, a cheater could delay the entry
> in
> order to try to amend or modify QSO data on screen, but only for that
> hour,
> because all previous log segments were already encrypted into chunks or
> segments that can NOT be decoded by the contest participant.
> 
> 
> 
> As the final QSO is logged as complete (CTRL + ENTER or whatever command
> is
> normally used), that final hour segment is auto-written, and the special
> module then also automatically combines all 24 encrypted module segments
> into one master encrypted file for emailing or uploading to the contest
> sponsor.  By encryption, I'm talking CIA grade (or close to it)
> encryption.
> Certainly there must be a technical way to build in some kind of trigger
> or
> self-destruct mechanism in the event a 'cheater' attempts to mess with the
> file, or, a clever way to identify if it's been screwed with once it is in
> the contest sponsor's possession.
> 
> 
> 
> There are several technical gurus who lurk here who may be able to
> 'confirm
> or deny' the plausibility of such an anti-cheating deterrent.
> 
> 
> 
> FWIW & 73.
> 
> 
> 
> Rick, K6VVA * The Locust
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