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Subject: Re: Plagiarism detector (o.t.)

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 14:44:49 03/17/03

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On March 17, 2003 at 17:39:41, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>>
>>It will only be useful when you have the source code of both programs (and of
>>course Deep <9> didn't have any published source code).
>
>yeah,it just hit me when after I made my post

Writing a program which extracts the strings from two binaries and compares the
similarity shouldn't be of any problem. I will try to write such a program
tonight if I get the time.



>>
>>Many CS undergrads tend to plagiarize others' source codes instead of doing
>>their own programming. It is unbelievably easy to beat the traditional
>>plagiarism detectors (e.g., MOSS from Berkeley), so I wrote this handy program
>>which is fairly hard to beat.
>>
>>I received many complaints from lecturers all over the world criticizing me for
>>making the program available publicly so that the students can use it also. But
>>I believe that the time they will spend to beat this analyzer will be more than
>>that of doing the program by themselves at first place.



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