RE: Slightly OT - Integrity of the CCIE candidate

There has to be a technology based big brother solution for this issue -

Why not have an setting where the candidate doing a rack time rental has to have a PC camera enabled and monitoring them during the rack rental - and your staff can spot check the camera during sessions so that you can see the person's face clearly... if it turns out to be fraud later - simply advise with a disclaimer on your website "We will provide the Your photos to the rival tribe, secret police and corrupt generals in your country subjecting you and your family to genocide :)

See wasn't that easy?

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Brian Dennis
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:29 PM
To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Slightly OT - Integrity of the CCIE candidate

We've had the same problem over the years and it does usually come in bunches. You can download pirated material but you can't pirate rack time ;-)

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Brian Dennis, CCIEx5 #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/SP/Voice) bdennis_at_ine.com
Internetwork Expert, Inc.
http://www.INE.com
On 03/22/2012 06:42 AM, Tony Schaffran wrote:
> I would just like to get a consensus of our relatively small CCIE community.
>
> Feel free to tell me to pack sand and suck it up, but it is hard to 
> believe we are the only ones experiencing this.
>
> We have been providing rack services for a little more than 10 years now.
>
> Up until this last year, we have not had to deal with one single fraud case.
> Maybe just lucky, but I like to think that is what should be expected 
> of the person striving to be a CCIE.
>
> Recently, we have been hit with an alarming number of users paying for 
> their rack time with stolen credit cards.
>
> I do not want to profile, but this problem appears to be only coming 
> from one region of the world.
>
> Is this the integrity of the future CCIE's we have to look forward to?  
> I seriously hope not.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
> You can hit me offline if you want so this does not start a firestorm 
> on groupstudy.  J
>
>
> Tony Schaffran
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