The kids went out and found the “cheating engines” for themselves. There was no plot from Big Tech, and believe me academia does not like them either.
They have, believe it or not, very little power to stop kids from choosing to use cheating engines on their personal laptops. Universities are not Enterprise.
They're just exploiting a bug in the Educational System where instead of testing if students know things, we test if they can produce a product that implies they know things. We don't interrogate them in person with questions to see if they understand the topic, we give them multiple choice questions that can be marked automatically to save time
They have, believe it or not, very little power to stop kids from choosing to use cheating engines on their personal laptops. Universities are not Enterprise.