Is Renaissance LockDown Browser safe?
Renaissance LockDown Browser transmits exam session PII to Respondus servers and disables other browser extensions during active exams.
During an exam session, the extension sends the student's username, first name, last name, exam ID, and question timing data to smc-service-cloud.respondus2.com. It also calls chrome.management.setEnabled to disable all browser extensions not on an exam allowlist, forcibly re-disabling any that attempt to re-enable themselves. When an exam ends, previously disabled extensions are restored.
Who publishes itRespondus Inc - 6 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Respondus Inc - 6 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
5 other listings published from this account, 2.0M+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Same operator - 1 listing
Published under a different store account, but sharing the registered address, contact or declared legal entity this one gave the store.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 0.4.53. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to. The current listed version is 0.4.91, which we have not unpacked yet.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
http://*/* and 1 more
Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
https://*/*
Read information about your displays
system.display
Read and change your full browsing history
history
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Watch every request your browser makes
webRequest
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Change per-site browser settings such as cookies, JavaScript and camera access
contentSettings
Clear your browsing history, cache and cookies
browsingData
Read whatever you have copied to your clipboard
clipboardRead
Write to your clipboard
clipboardWrite
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Renaissance LockDown Browser contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- smc-service-cloud.respondus2.com
Renaissance LockDown Browser sends data to smc-service-cloud.respondus2.com. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.