text: Video conferencing devices are prone to break, be hacked, or even stop working completely. This unpredictability poses a threat to students' ability to listen to lectures or complete any other online tasks given. Simply put, long distance learning is too risky in terms of technical issues and is not best used for an educational platform. If a device used for distance learning were to malfunction, it would need to be repaired, which can cost up to hundreds of dollars. Many students, especially people completing their tertiary education, may not be able to afford these expensive repairs. Long distance learning creates many ways for students' to miss a class or not fulfill a due date because of technical issues, which can only be harmful to their education. Attending school in person, however, does not require being dependent on the functionality of an electronic device. If long distance learning is meant to be more efficient, the extra time and money put into repairing a device in time seems counterproductive; clearly, this is not beneficial. Furthermore, it is extremely well-known how easily a technological device can be hacked. With one click on an email, a whole device can be infested by a digital virus. Obviously, the financial implications of this problem are a burden to students' as well as the possible missed content. Because of the lack of security and the fragile nature of video conferencing devices, long distance learning proves to have more risks to a student's education rather than advantages. Some people may say that cybersecurity measures maybe taken to prevent this from occurring, however, they fail to consider the fact that with new protection measures come new ways to surpass them.