December 10, 2004
A Struggle of 18 Days with 280,000 Text Messages
This should be the last of the posts on the SMS cheating scheme in South Korea, as the police is winding down their pharaonic investigation. The amount of data they sifted through is staggering.
From donga.com: "As the chief of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's Cyber Crime Investigation Squad, police major Kim Jae-gyu, 42, looked exhausted after finally completing his team's 18-day investigation on Friday into exam cheating on this year's college entrance exam with suspects using cell phone messages.
With their sound and successful efforts, the outcome of the investigation is fruitful. Thanks to their clever investigation strategy of analyzing mobile phone messages, they indicted 182 test takers without physical detention by Friday.
The amount of data handed over to the investigation team was roughly 280,000 cases that consisted of numbers from one to five, sorted out from 300 million text messages sent on the test day.
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