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I am investigating the possibility that a student is bypassing an extension based web filter by modifying the json file associated with the extension. Does anyone know if this is possible? The web filter company is baffled by this one. Thank you!
That depends a lot on the extension itself. Just from experience, I wouldn't think it is possible, but there are so many ways of coding an extension that it might be possible anyway. Knowing that from the Admin you can add a JSON file to control certain extensions I would be inclined to think this can definitely be a possibility.
If the JSON file is theoretically accessible by the user then where does it get stored? This isn't something I thought about as I assumed when a JSON is deployed from Google Admin that it would be deployed in such a way that a student shouldn't be able to get at it. Also Windows Chrome or ChromeOS Chrome?
It happened on a Chromebook. We figured out what happened with the help of another admin group. There is a method to disable CB extensions using three links demonstrated on a video on Youtube. It shows how to access the json through a chrome-extension://[extension id]/manifest.json, click 2 other links, and they disappear from the extension (which is an extension based web filter).
