Until someone runs it in a VM.
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
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#142What's to stop me embedding a pinhole camera in the lamp behind me, zooming it in on the screen, and recording every meeting? These kinds of measures only stop the good guys from doing their jobs. The bad guys put way too much effort into espionage for this to work.
I love all the comments imagining complex technical workarounds while skipping right over the obvious workaround of using a smartphone camera to take a picture of the screen (which was mentioned near the top of the article that everyone read, of course). Modern camera phones are wide angle enough that it’s not hard to grab a shot of the monitor out of frame. > These kinds of measures only stop the good guys from doin…
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#143LOL 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…
> 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…
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it’s literally the dumbest feature ever. There’s absolutely nothing preventing a user from pulling out their phone and taking a picture of any slide they want. Or having a camera recording the whole session out of view of their webcam. It is security theater at its peak.
In a 1:1 format this would be effective in preventing some forms of misuse because it would be obvious if an individual took out their phone and pointed it towards the screen.
Sibling comment's definition of "easily" varies materially from my own!
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#145This is just to serve as a reminder of who actually "owns" your computer. Overwhelmingly, people who speak in favor of windows, grew up using it. It's like the indoctrination of any religous cult, it works best when you start young. One has to wonder when the world will recover from windoze brain damage...
> It's like the indoctrination of any religous cult
Heh; sister in grade school for her computer class was given a pamphlet where she and her classmates could learn how to become web surfers with IE, how to write a blog with WL Writer and how cool is SkyDrive for saving your files.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
If you have a camera on a stand or are holding up a phone, other participants will able to see it and object. Of course it's still possible to get around it. It's possible to get around anything. The idea of privacy controls is to make bad-faith jerks have to work significantly harder.
Cameras are in eyeglass frames now. Or lapel pins. The idea that someone would be noticed taking pictures is pretty obsolete.
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#147I take screenshots because they're definitely going to forget to share the presentation.
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#148This is a pointless feature that’s easily bypassed if you know what you’re doing. It’s there so someone can check a compliance box to make an auditor that doesn’t know much about tech feel better. That’s it.
This is exactly right. It’s there to check the “no screenshots allowed” checkbox on some compliance form for some random certification.
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#149Earlier 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…
Some people might want it, but it doesn’t actually work. It’s probably also required by some compliance theater in some places.
It doesn't work against which threat model?
Yeah, if you've got corporate espionage going on this isn't going to stop someone from lifting your slides and taking them elsewhere. But the most common culprit of corporate information security violations isn't a spy, it's a well-meaning employee who didn't hear, remember, or correctly interpret the request to not record the meeting.
Blocking the most common way in which this kind of well-meaning but ill-informed employee would break the expected security rules does work. It's just getting flak here because people are imagining a much more exciting threat model.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the equivalent of sitting in a movie theater with a camcorder. Not important enough to bother crafting a solution for.
I would say it's completely different. A camcorder movie has bad quality, most people would rather pay for a good quality movie than a free camcorder one. For sensitive data on the other hand quality doesn't matter as long as it's readable.
Plenty of people would pay to watch a camcorder copy of a new release film rather than pay the cost of taking the whole family to the theatre. That’s why it was commonly done. Now you just go online.