The Zhejiang Provincial Office of Information Industry confirmed that on the morning and afternoon of June 7 and the morning of June 8, its subordinate Jinhua Radio Management Office seized three cases of gangs using radio equipment and technology to commit college entrance exam fraud in Yongkang in one fell swoop.
The case was investigated by the Economic and Cultural Defense Section of the General Security Bureau of the Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau, and the relevant facts of the case have not been disclosed to the outside world more than twenty days after the end of the college entrance examination. Within the Department of Education of Zhejiang Province, there is also no internal briefing. "So far, everything is still confidential information." Zhou Kan, head of the propaganda department of the Yongkang municipal party committee, said.
Receiving equipment placed in the ear canal
A student's parent told the Southern Weekend reporter that she had also received an invitation before the college entrance exams, and paid a 50,000 yuan fee to the organizers for receiving the answers.
"I heard that you have to stuff soybean-sized things in your ears, and you may have to have surgery." The parent said, afraid of the physical danger to the child, but also afraid of being caught, she thought twice, and finally gave up before the start of the college entrance examination cheating intentions. In the end, she only recovered 20,000 yuan, the remaining 30,000 yuan as liquidated damages were confiscated by the organizers.
A source at the Jinhua Radio Management Office, who requested anonymity, explained the rationale for this kind of cheating.
"Using the principle of magnetic field induction, the cheating student straps the receiver to his body and places it inside the collar of his clothes with a wire to form a loop through the body. Then a terminal receiver, the size of a soybean, is inserted into the ear canal. Through the off-site transmitter waves and magnetic field changes, causing the 'soybean' in the ear to vibrate, generating acoustic sensing, and ultimately transmitting a signal."
"Such technology is not difficult," the source said, but the danger is, and what that student's parents feared - "(The 'soybean ') may not come out when it's hard in," at which point the student would need to go to the hospital for a minor ear surgery to remove it.
In the ear of the "soybean" once the body shaking, it is likely to fall out of the ear was found. For safety reasons, many cheaters chose to do a small surgery, put it into the ear, temporarily fixed in the cochlea near the side.
Looking at the medical anatomy, the cochlea is adjacent to the depth of the temporal bone, near the middle ear auditory ossicles and the brainstem. It is difficult to place an object in its vicinity with unusual maneuvers.
As for the walkie-talkie as a transmitting source, since after the liberalization of the management of radio equipment, it has long been flooded in the market, "at any time you can buy."
"In theory, a walkie-talkie, a cell phone, are a radio station. And this soybean-sized one-way receiving device is a miniature radio." This person analyzed. So the whole process is not a one-to-one relationship as understood by outsiders. "A signal is sent out, it is a radio station, and as long as there are receivers can receive the signal. How many receivers there are, we don't know. Theoretically, it's even possible that the entire test site could be covered."
The way to deal with this kind of cheating tactic is to catch the cheating student on the spot inside the exam hall. Otherwise, it will have to rely on people outside the field to testify and "say how much is how much."
The first to be identified were 21 off-site people and 9 students. A source from the Jinhua Radio Management Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Information Industry Office confirmed to the Southern Weekend reporter: "The first time was 15, then 5, 1, three times a **** captured 21 off-site people." It was also informed by the police that the students who were initially confessed by the off-site to receiving services were 6, 2, 1, and 9 in one ****.
But on June 24, the reporter through the Yongkang Municipal Public Security Bureau of the internal see is, the Bureau to Yongkang Municipal Party Committee to report a material with the previous rumors but there is a discrepancy, the number of people became 20 off-site personnel and Cheng and other 8 students.
"All the numbers are provisional at the moment. The specific case, the public security department is still in the process of investigation, has not been finalized." Zhang Jianglin, spokesperson for the Zhejiang Provincial Education Examination Institute, explained to Southern Weekend that the case has been fully taken over by a joint investigation team formed by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education and the Department of Public Security, and that it is normal for the final numbers to increase or decrease before the investigation is over.
What are the specific numbers? Suspected of fraud candidates with what method will be the receiver into the ear canal? Zhejiang Provincial Public Security Bureau to the case has not yet been investigated, whether to release the news to be decided by the education sector, declined the request for an interview.
The radio detection car to locate cheating signals
June 5 morning, two days before the college entrance exams, a roof equipped with a spherical radar receiver Toyota Land Cruiser has driven into the campus of Yongkang First Middle School in Jinhua. This cost up to more than five million "radio monitoring car", specifically used to search for cheating violations relying on radio transmission for the college entrance examination. "In accordance with the unified requirements of the Ministry of Education, we have made it possible for each prefecture-level city to cover a radio monitoring vehicle before the exam." Zhang Jianglin explained in an interview with Southern Weekend. The specific location, "according to the previous year's examination style and discipline and other factors to determine".
An authority from the Jinhua Radio Management Office said in an interview that because the monitoring force is limited after all, within the nine counties and municipalities of Jinhua, the enrollment department eventually identified Yongkang as a monitoring priority. "Yongkang should indeed be the focus. From this situation, Yongkang is indeed more powerful, signaling more checks." The source, who requested anonymity, admitted. "What we know in the early stage is what regular radio stations there are on that day, and when we compare them on the next day's test monitoring, we can find abnormal signals."
"We did not stipulate that the car must be present in Yongkang." Zhang Jianglin said, but "there may be Yongkang a few days ago, they went to test, there is also something." He denied that the provincial education examination center side had previously received relevant reports.
But the signs seemed to be there. A teacher at Yongkang No. 1 Middle School observed that on June 5, Xu Yingbo, deputy director of the Yongkang Municipal Education Bureau, warned in an interview with Yongkang Daily that in order to prevent possible high-tech fraud in the college entrance exams, all localities should inspect and monitor the suspicious signals around the local test sites during the college entrance exams, and interfere or shield them in a timely manner if necessary.
And the footage about the radio monitoring car in Yongkang has been repeated in Zhejiang Province's Jingtian TV station.
On the first day of the college entrance examination, the monitoring car detected abnormal signals near the examination hall of Yongkang No. 1 Middle School. "We strengthened a lot of equipment on that day." A source from the Jinhua City Radio Management Office said. On the first day of the exam, in addition to that city's only professional detection car, another small detachable mobile equipment also stationed together in Yongkang.
After the first language exam began, staff first used a radio spectrometer to conduct a routine band scan near the test site. After comparing with the daily radio stations measured the day before, unusual and suspicious signals were quickly discovered. These signals were immediately fed into the radio direction finder for analysis, and signal receiving antennas began to be used in order to locate and identify the source of the signal transmissions. The source, who was present at the time, said that the staff, after repeated comparisons, the signals detected that morning were located in the area around the Bastard Coffee, which is separated by a river from the examination point of Yongkang No. 1 Middle School.
"The precise positioning of the monitoring vehicle is not strong, and can only determine the general location." The source said that in order to pinpoint the location, the staff again used mobile devices to repeatedly monitor the area, and finally identified the Bastard. Two other launch points were similarly determined in the second math and third general studies exams.
The precise positioning was communicated to the police in time. The Yongkang Public Security Bureau of the police then went out. Twenty-one off-site personnel were arrested on the spot, and nine students suspected of cheating were subsequently identified based on the confessions of those arrested.
The origin of the test papers and answers was also included in the subsequent investigation. "Originally, we suspected that there might have been on-site scanning of the test papers to launch them outward, but in the end, there was no monitoring." The source said that after interrogation by the public security department, it was finally determined that the test papers were sent from outside the country through the Internet.
The concern is well-founded. In fact, miniature pen scanners, the market is also easy to buy. This scanner power is very small, but the reception range can still reach dozens of meters away. "Taoist high feet, the devil is high, always they have a new means of operation later, we can follow up to study the solution." This person said with a bitter smile. Fraud is increasingly high-tech and organized, there is still no effective punishment
Yongkang's collective fraud is just one of the radio cheating cases seized in Zhejiang this year.
The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Information Industry admitted that this year, they were in Jinhua, Taizhou, Wenzhou, seized 8 radio equipment and technology to use the college entrance examination fraud case, the investigation of off-site involved in the case of 34 people, seized a homemade car station, walkie-talkie 13, as well as cell phones, laptops and other suspected equipment, intercepted and intercepted illegal signals in 3 cases.
The large-scale cheating is related to the new curriculum reform that will be launched in 2009. "This year's college entrance exam is a bit special, and next year is the new textbook. It's only then that some students resorted to speculation." Zhou Kan, head of the propaganda department of Yongkang Municipal Party Committee, analyzed. The changes in the new curriculum reform are the updating of teaching materials and changes in examination subjects. For many students, if they can not successfully ride on the implementation of the new curriculum reform program before the last train, next year when the high school will no longer have "more than others to study a year" advantage, everything will become unknown.
Perhaps taking this into account, before the examination, the Zhejiang Provincial Education Examination Bureau has repeatedly emphasized the need to increase the penalty for malpractice in the college entrance examination this year.
In the announcement of the "Zhejiang Province in 2008 ordinary college enrollment policy", the Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Education and Examinations in particular, Zhejiang Province, each candidate must be signed before the examination, "integrity test book", once the test violation of fraud behavior, the violation of fraud and the results of the facts will be recorded to the candidates in the electronic file, admission for the school's reference. At the same time, the record will be included in the integrity platform set up at the national and provincial levels, accompanied by candidates for life.
But a paper of self-discipline integrity alone, without effective punitive measures, simply can not eliminate the reality of the impulse to cheat.
Guo Shenchu, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Education Examination Institute, admitted that on the day of the seizure of the Yongkang case, a joint investigation team composed of the Provincial Department of Education and the Public Security Bureau immediately rushed to the area. But no one has been penalized until press time.
Guo Shenchu explained to the Southern Weekend reporter that once a student is recognized as a cheater, he or she will receive different punishments depending on the severity of the case. The first is to be caught on the spot, canceling the results of a single subject; another is the seriousness of the circumstances, for example, in the last game was caught out of the students, the previous few games and evidence of cheating, will be canceled all the results; the third, is to send the test paper to the outside world, leaking state secrets, "which involves criminal, is not something we can control."
Guo Shenchu said, because of the Yongkang college entrance examination fraud, and no students were caught on the spot, all the students suspected of cheating are after the fact off-site cheaters identified, therefore, so far no students were canceled any course results. Due to the lack of a final conclusion of the investigation, all students suspected of cheating in Zhejiang Province have not yet been penalized in any way.
"This is something that concerns their whole life. We are very careful about the students' grades. We won't give them this conclusion easily until the public security department's conclusion comes out."
And the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education denied that any teachers had been dealt with. "Whether the teacher is dealt with can only be determined after the results of the investigation, our provincial office and the Discipline Inspection Commission have not received news in this regard."
A source at the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Information Industry, who requested anonymity, said that the midterm, college entrance exams, judicial exams, and postgraduate (Q-bar) exams are exams that can almost always set people up for life. In the low cost of the law before the test fraud is now gangs, organized characteristics, "can not be prevented.
This person recalled that once he was in charge of monitoring a judicial examination room in Jinhua, monitoring the suspicion of cheating, but ultimately could not be punished. A parent said angrily, "If it's just a 100,000 or 200,000, I'll let my son do it."
The lack of laws on how to penalize exam fraud may be another reason. A prosecutor from the Hangzhou Procuratorate, who asked to remain anonymous, commented that there are no clear provisions in the current Public Security Punishment Law or the Criminal Law that set penalties for people who organize fraud, except for those members who are suspected of leaking state secrets due to the theft of test papers. In addition, there are no effective criminal penalties