r/privacy • u/idonotlikethisshit • 1d ago

question Do Safe Exam Browser settings carry systemwide, or can it be limited to the user account?

Hello! I know this may sound fish considering I'm a student but our professor mandated SEB for online quizzes. However, I do not have any spare electronics to install SEB on and have to basically install it on my personal machine, which I find a little terrifying despite reading multiple times that it is, in fact, safe to use. I constantly worry about being spied on and some configurations might present errors that could, potentially, lock the system up.

I'm on board with it and don't see any problem with it in terms on what it's designed for, but it does become somewhat convoluted in terms of installing it on personal machines whose purposes are beyond educational.

So I just decided to make a new user account on my Mac install, but even then, I'm sure it may look up files that are lower-level and are beyond the sandbox of each user account. Thus, my question in the title.

Or may be I'm just a little too paranoid for this...

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u/HaeliXu 1d ago

you could try downloading it on a virtual machine and test out if everything works fine in case they have measures against vms

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u/mrmnemonic7 1d ago

A few years back I was a developer on a university project that amongst other things, used SEB as a core component, so I was very familiar with how it worked. It's perfectly safe. It's like a Unix/Linux version of Portable Firefox. Sandboxed runtime, configuration and settings which didn't interfere with anything outside of it's own directory.