Digital DNA Takes On SAT Exam Cheating
As New York lawmakers consider a bill that would make cheating on the SAT a felony, one company thinks it has the answer to thwarting testing fraud: the “digitalDNA™ ID.”Residents of New York State, and Long Island in particular, were in shock last November when dozens of students were arrested, accused of paying up to thousands of dollars each to have others take the all-important SAT college entrance exam for them. "It was easy," one of the suddenly-rolling-in-dough test takers put it. "The IDs were school IDs. What is that? I just pasted my own picture into the ID and got in." The