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Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by Aurornis »

NKosmatos wrote: post #94
Aurornis wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All these are due to laws and regulations that are there to protect the big companies and don’t take into consideration users This feature is not due to laws and regulations. The user in this case is the presenter who clicks the button to enable screenshot protection on their meeting. This is Microsoft trying to deliver a feature their users want , not laws and regulations making them do something their users don’t…

There isn’t a single user (presenter) that would ask something like this. Only a presenter that has to follow some strict “high security” procedures would enable something like this. A politician, for example, will have an excuse in case something leaks. The fact that with a simple mobile having a camera you can copy whatever is being presented (or with slightly more technical ways) is irrelevant for laws and procedu…

> There isn’t a single user (presenter) that would ask something like this.

Asking participants not to screen record or take screenshot was standard practice at every company I’ve worked at where we discussed anything like financials or sensitive business plans.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by johnea »

jolmg wrote: post #65
IcyWindows wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that really any different than those that grew up with a Mac?

It's not a Windows vs Mac thing. It's using closed-source software vs open-source, i.e. Windows & Mac vs Linux et al.

This is highlighted by how many different types of user interface environments are implemented in free s/w platforms, vs the monoculture user interfaces of proprietary OSes.

The resultant windoze brain damage is a co-mingling of "you don't know what you don't know", lack of awareness of just how varied computer interfaces could be, with the "child indoctrination" aspect that nothing else seems quite right when it's not what you were raised on.

After my first programming experiences, on a TRS-80 in the mall radio shack in the late '70s, I was exposed to a variety of user interfaces, but eventually became locked into windows myself, mostly from employer enforcement.

The thing that drove me away in the end was the way various settings were moved around with each new release, and the way my workflow had to constantly adapt to arbitrary changes in the user interface with each revision.

After exploring a wide variety of desktop environments, I've been on fluxbox window manager for many years now and I'm still quite satisfied. All of my configuration options are in my home directory, and my user interface experience is recreated without incident when updating, and even when moving to new h/w.

But the monoculture is wide spread, and continues to inhibit computer innovation outside of what will benefit the mothership...

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by stordoff »

whatwhaaaaat wrote: post #97
WorldPeas wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or… y’know having a HDMI capture box with a trigger pedal.

Doesn’t hdcp take care of that? 720p over component sure but hdmi has protection for this.

Most cheap HDMI splitters seem to disable HDCP.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by flufluflufluffy »

I get that it’s basically impossible to enforce but who are all these people that screencap stuff from Teams meetings? Why do you need to do that? Can you not get the actual material you’re capping via somebody emailing/sharing the actual file? If not, why? Are you not allowed to access it? Or are you all just taking candids of your coworkers for your own devious purposes?

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by FireBeyond »

NKosmatos wrote: post #94
Aurornis wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> All these are due to laws and regulations that are there to protect the big companies and don’t take into consideration users This feature is not due to laws and regulations. The user in this case is the presenter who clicks the button to enable screenshot protection on their meeting. This is Microsoft trying to deliver a feature their users want , not laws and regulations making them do something their users don’t…

There isn’t a single user (presenter) that would ask something like this. Only a presenter that has to follow some strict “high security” procedures would enable something like this. A politician, for example, will have an excuse in case something leaks. The fact that with a simple mobile having a camera you can copy whatever is being presented (or with slightly more technical ways) is irrelevant for laws and procedu…

Pretty common where I have worked. Most commonly when reviewing internal product roadmaps to our sales teams because we've burned too many times when customers complain that we haven't implemented something we never announced but a sales person mentioned/showed.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by tstrimple »

chevman wrote: post #69

Most folks know this is easily defeated typically by viewing the content on another device (eg via casting it, remote desktop, phone mirroring, etc) or viewing it from within a VM, and then using the native screen capture functionality on the viewing device to record/screenshot whatever you need. That being said - guessing they are doing this for their enterprise customers mainly, where alot of those other options ar…

Ran into this “feature” this week. So instead of grabbing a screen cap from my VDI I have to grab it from my primary OS and then email myself the image to cross that corp “boundary”. They recently disabled copy and paste between my computer and the VDI session as well.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by kccqzy »

asadotzler wrote: post #82
johnnyo wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)." Seems like it’s even easier, just join the meeting via browser. I’m not familiar with a way to enforce this type of restriction in the browser.

Browser DRM like WideVine and PlayReady do the enforcing

Really? I didn't know it was possible to use DRM like WideVine for peer-to-peer video.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by 6P58r3MXJSLi »

NKosmatos wrote: post #78

LOL Another stupid feature (enforced by regulations/law/policies) that has no real world use, besides making us users angry :-( Like Google collecting all of our location history for their own usage, but not allowing us to see it via web anymore (only on mobiles), or having the android dialer not allowing us to record our own phone conversation (easily circumvented), or movie/music/game publishers not allowing us to…

> easily circumvented)

Or, you know, just take a picture of the screen with your phone.

Or record the session, or film it, etc etc etc

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by kccqzy »

thih9 wrote: post #99

I very often take screenshots during meetings, it’s a helpful reference point to me. I never used that to save more sensitive data than what I already have access to. Still, I assume my use case will no longer be supported. That’s unfortunate.

I do the same. But I think you can just nicely ask the presenter to share the deck.
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