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by volatile 4727 days ago
Don't underestimate mass market consumers' readiness and ability to use a search engine. The small effort to find the answer online will not deter anyone who comes along wanting a laptop.

What I have seen called cheating by hackers are things like exceedingly clever shortcuts. Cheating by using someone else's answer in a qualification test is not in any sort of spirit of hacking that I'm familiar with.