I probably have no idea what the hell im talking about and it might not work in a live contest environment but most of us on a typical bench session will get the board prepped and insulated do the mods and get the dewar filled or get the d.ice the following day and come home and start benching. I rarely have my internet connection enabled since its just another thing to run in the bkgrd. so its ocing and taking screenshots and saving files to a folder. then after the damn board stops posting and ram is clogged with ice, cold bug, out of ln2, burned socket, out of ln2, out of beer, etc. the next day I plug the drive into a spare rig and or save to a usb key and start submitting to the bot.

okay heres the idea. I noticed when i log into my bank from a different computer from the one i opened the account with it will ask me a bunch of personal questions I filled out when I made the original account because they see I'm logged on from a computer with a different ip address. cant the bot work the same way? there must be some easy program someone can develop that takes up minimal resources or integrate into the benching soft that can verify that each submission is coming from the right source.
the same way the online banking one works? I think this thread is so full of a bunch of people arguing about ethics when we should be designing a solution instead. No matter what we say about ethics there are always going to be unethical people who ruin it for the honest ones. so there needs to be a major change in the way submissions are made. Until that happens. I think what happened was big wake up call for everyone else and shows us that dishonesty will NOT be tolerated. As hard a decision as it was for the admins to ban the ones involved but it shows you have some balls and won't take any crap from anyone ..no matter how popular or skilled at overclocking they are. What pisses me off the most is that these dudes are really good at overclocking and have sponsors and experience and the kids look up to them etc. They dont need to cheat. its so frickin' ridiculous and now we have threads like this one "the ethics of overclocking" what the hell is this world coming to?

maybe there is no need for any changes.. We are all aware that cheating isnt tolerated. and they got caught didnt they? so that shows there's a way to see whos cheating.. right?