Hacking Respondus Lockdown Browser

llettie

Hi Fellow Admins,

Hope you are all making though this crisis. Have any of you come across this when using Respondus Lockdown Browser.

I have been able to hack the browser and allow it to open new tabs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRBgN-1EbA8

The vendor is blaming it on Slow Internet.

Thank you

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r_layden

Thanks for sharing this - here's my results from a (very) quick check.

I couldn't replicate this in Windows at all - any link I tried wouldnt open for me.

On my Mac I could indeed put a link in the RCE and click it but I couldn't actually follow any links or click out from that page.

ie. in your example of linking to a Google page, I couldnt actually perform a search because I got 'link blocked'

Once I'd done this a couple of times I could no longer even follow links.

Very interested to hear other people's experience

Rich

KenBlakey-Shell

Supposedly Respondus fixed this. The following is in reference to the Mac lockdown browser:

"We blocked the essay editor's insert link button in version 2.0.7.03.
We are not able to replicate the problem when using the latest version."

I was still able to type www.google.com and then open it in a new tab but it appears that the search results page is blocked so you cannot get past that.