Safe Exam Browser

Safe Exam Browser (SEB) is, perhaps, one of the most intrusive pieces of software ever shoved into students' PCs. Not only does it have the feeling of being intrusive; it acts as such a virus which takes control of your PC thinking that it belongs to the software. Upon launch, SEB starts hijacking hotkeys, short-cuts, fullscreen mode, and basic Windows features. What makes the experience even worse is how SEB tries to treat your personal computer as its enemy. It does not act like an app but more like an invasive malware that locks down your PC in an aggressive way. What is frightening about SEB is how much it behaves like a real piece of malicious software: aggressively, destructively and totally regardless of user control or consent. It seems that the motto of SEB is "nothing to trust, everything to break". SEB doesn't care whether it ruins your productivity or violates your accessibility settings. SEB doesn't care what shortcuts you use and that your device is your property. It is amazing that any educational institution thinks it is acceptable for students to have to install such software. The configuration system is a joke as well. Everything is password protected, which allows the SEB to be in full kiosk mode and prevents any sort of control over the exam software from the user’s side. Maybe it would not matter on a school-owned device, but on a private computer, this is totally unacceptable. No examination software must be able to disable the system-level input or interfere with the computer at all except during the exam time. What about performance? Exactly as bad as one would expect from such a program. It is slow, clumsy, outdated, and freezes often. Its user interface feels like being created in 2008 and has not been updated since. The bottom line is Safe Exam Browser is an extremely bloated, invasive piece of software that brute-forces its way to solving exam security and creates collateral damage on every step along the way. Not only is it terrible software – it’s software that actively disrespects the user and their computer. Verdict: SEB seems like a virus, behaves like a virus, and feels like a virus. The only thing missing is you having to install it.

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Quiero agradecer a mi grupo de AYD1 y AYD2, sobre todo al tamalito, los quiero mucho banda :)

Bum ahh app setting us back even our ancestors think we're monkeys can't even play tetris 😔✌️

it should be mor transparent