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I was at a school which used "Lockdown Browser" to try to lock-down the Windows environment to only the exam. Unfortunately for the school, I had experience wi

I was at a school which used "Lockdown Browser" to try to lock-down the Windows environment to only the exam. Unfortunately for the school, I had experience with Windows programming, and blew the doors off Lockdown Browser in about 10 minutes, with multiple apps and windows open on top of the befuddled browser. And later, I found a way to do it with no programming skill at all. I did it to make the point that if I could figure it out, who is to say that some rich student's parents wouldn't pay a nice sum of cash for an exploit like that? Or that they haven't? The school, well... just decided to ignore it and keep it anyway because it was a contract. https://gabrielsieben.tech/2020/10/28/the-lockdown-browser-is-not-very-good-at-locking-down/ https://gabrielsieben.tech/2020/10/28/the-lockdown-browser-i...

trevcanhuman 4y ago
I've also used it when I was taking exams for high school. It's pretty bad software if you ask me. rant/long comment First of all, they have a 'different' program for each institution, customized for you to 'sign-in' onto your school's auth page. From an institutional perspective it seems clever, since everything you do will most likely be logged along with your session. Another annoying thing was that there's different versions of the program for 'each' software. E.g. I used the Canvas platform for some exams and the ALEKS platform for math exams. And they have the same name under the windows programs so I can only really know which one I'm opening from looking at the desktop. I believe the Lockdown program is using some lame code to keep the program window 'active'. I never really tried to do any programming behind it. But I do remember that I had some AutoHotkey scripts running for completely unrelated stuff. On another note, I read their privacy policy and it seems very vague. I wonder if they can get away with letting a stranger view my face for two hours.

trevcanhuman 4y ago

I've also used it when I was taking exams for high school. It's pretty bad software if you ask me. rant/long comment First of all, they have a 'different' program for each institution, customized for you to 'sign-in' onto your school's auth page. From an institutional perspective it seems clever, since everything you do will most likely be logged along with your session. Another annoying thing was that there's different versions of the program for 'each' software. E.g. I used the Canvas platform for some exams and the ALEKS platform for math exams. And they have the same name under the windows programs so I can only really know which one I'm opening from looking at the desktop. I believe the Lockdown program is using some lame code to keep the program window 'active'. I never really tried to do any programming behind it. But I do remember that I had some AutoHotkey scripts running for completely unrelated stuff. On another note, I read their privacy policy and it seems very vague. I wonder if they can get away with letting a stranger view my face for two hours.