Comment by solatic
Is it even ethical anymore to build "old" devices with large amounts of space sitting behind bulky plastic exteriors?
It lets cheaters put chips into calculators and Israeli spies put explosives into pagers. Should large manufacturers be forced to put electronics into the smallest possible casing, to discourage trying to cram anything else inside?
> to discourage trying to cram anything else inside?
the manufacturers should not be doing anything other than whatever their customers are willing to pay for.
Explosives, or cheats, are unsolvable. People, including exam conductors, will have to either spend the time (and cost) to weed out cheat devices, or accept some level of cheating exists.