Archer's Freedom Wall
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Guys for your sake, please do NOT install the lockdown browser on your personal computer. Do it on a computer you don't plan on using as much anymore if push comes to shove, but please avoid using the lockdown browser. Not saying this to condone cheating, but lockdown is just not the solution to prevent cheating. I think most people who would know anything about computers at all would agree with me on this.
For one, lockdown has been known to slow down computers a lot, if not breaking your system completely. Installing it might require you to turn off your antivirus just so that it can edit registry entries, which could potentially either break something or block you from using various essential system tools such as the task manager among other things. You can't even revert the damage safely and easily if you have it uninstalled after because it has no way of reverting system defaults in the registry. I don't think there is a clear answer whatsoever on what changes it makes to the registry specifically, and it is dangerous to edit the registry manually unless you know what you're doing.
All that and there hasn't even been talk about the privacy issues that comes with the use of lockdown. Lockdown processes a LOT of the information on your computer, including your videos, photos, and audio recordings, and every active process on it. According to their Privacy Policy, some of that data is stored by them for various reasons, and most is sent to our institution (which in our case is DLSU). Before you can even use lockdown, it'll check every program you have open, and it will ask you to close them before you can open the browser at all.
Lockdown has been known to break PCs often as well, with several accounts of their computers freezing whenever using the browser. I think DLSU knows this, since they said themselves in their policy that the university will not be held liable for damages to personal computers, and that they advise users to back up data regularly.
Again, please as much as possible, do not install lockdown onto a system you actually plan on using, and if ever, install it onto a separate system you don't need on a daily basis. If possible, I think we should push for DLSU to do something against the use of lockdown, and that the university should take other measures for dealing with cheating in exams such as having more pen-and-paper tests or simply sharing their screen and turning on their camera during online tests (I would say microphones as well, but that might make the zoom meeting too loud.)