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Oh god, I'm worried AAPT (the American Association of Physics Teachers) is not going to be able to handle this either. The AMC/AIME were decades ahead of the Physics Olympiad in terms of having any degree of test security when the last big cheating explosion happened on the Physics Olympiad, and AAPT's initial response was to stop permitting people to take the test internationally (somewhat reasonable) and stop letting international students and non-US citizens take the test (OMFG), and of course this was timed for right as US schools were trying to send their international students back to Wuhan because there was a pandemic starting and I was so angry. They've gotten better about not giving people days and days to take the test, and having people upload their results promptly, but their current lockdown browser strategy seems to be "make sure the proctors can see all the students' screens", and while that worked perfectly fine with my one student who wanted to take it on our conference day, it is not going to scale.

Thank you for writing about this. It is extremely relevant to my interests. And if the larger math organization is struggling with it, physics is going to be in trouble.

Also it is insanely cool to me that you have a child who can count on qualifying for the JMO. I was pretty proud of myself the year I got two points on the AIME!