I don't see ANY reason why this should happen. It doesn't matter if student's find the solutions online, in the long run. If students don't bother to learn while in school, they will burn when they get a job. Also, if students cut'n paste the solutions they find online, fail them. There is a difference in actually cut'n paste, and using something as a reference. Nothing wrong in sitting down, reading someone else's work, and using it. Students learn a lot from that. I used to be a Lab engineer, teaching basic C(We start with "Hello World"). When 40 people handed in the same work, they got what was coming. Our Labs are the same every year, and it won't change just because the solutions are published by older students. The students are there to learn, and if they don't want to, not our problem. There is NO reason to threaten a student just because they publish what they made.

Being who I am, that teacher would not manage to get my notes, no matter what the teacher did, unless I got killed. So be it. (I would still have my digital notes, on my fine little backup server, in my house) What I fail to see is how this would prevent cheating at all, because the teacher would have to teach the same material the next semester/year anyway. Teacher should be fired (with a canon), towards the Bay of Pigs.

I never travel with sensitive data on my laptop, just because I don't want to loose it to anybody. That be customs or some scum snatching it. All that data is on my server back home, so I can grab it from pretty much anywhere. Might cost me a few coins to go to a Internet Cafe, is I have to, but it's still OK. I also upload my stuff to the server. IF I have something I want to hide in a hurry, I just put it in a . Dir (running Ubuntu). Yeah, it's easy to find, but people don't know how to show these Dirs in a UI anyway. I don't bother to encrypt the disk, if I feel it's not safe to cary on me, I upload it first thing.