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There are various types of honor systems that may be employed.

A total honor system makes no checks on its users to verify their honesty, thereby easily allowing the system to be cheated.

Though the system may face occasional audits, there would be no way thereafter of learning the identity of the violator.

Some are simply contingent upon the truthfulness presumed of users ; others are present when the losses caused by those who may cheat the system are less costly than a higher security system.