Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by constantcrying » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:23 PM UTC

bob1029 wrote: post #2

Any security feature that can be totally defeated with a spicy HDMI splitter and a 2nd computer should not exist. This stuff looks much more to me like "fuck the user" than anything else. I am 100% convinced there is a cult of evil bastards at Microsoft, et. al. that is hellbent on making everyone's UI/UX as janky as possible.

No. It is there to protect an organization from itself. It tells the participants that the content should not be shared by them.

It is essentially like a watermark in a PDF. It can be trivially defeated, but that isn't the point.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by queuebert » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

What'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.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by constantcrying » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:24 PM UTC

fifticon wrote: post #12

Interesting how this will stop me from taking a picture with my mobile phone. The amount of effort people will go to, to make people's work more cumbersome. I am not screenshotting for espionage, I am screenshotting to accomplish my job.

Not relevant at all.

This is like a watermark on a PDF. Not some impossible to circumvent security protocol.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by constantcrying » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

queuebert wrote: post #22

What'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.

Totally irrelevant. This is there to protect an organization from itself. Think of it as a watermark on a PDF.

It exist to make the easiest way impossible and to tell participants that the content should not be shared by them.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by SbEpUBz2 » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

WhatsApp disabled creating screenshots of profile pictures (this annoyed my grandmother), but it cannot really do this when using through the web interface.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by pjmlp » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:28 PM UTC

These folks never heard of something called photographic camera.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by whstl » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:31 PM UTC

A former colleague was harassed for a months on end a boss and used screen recordings to prove it to HR.

Not surprised at all that MS is doing this.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by IcyWindows » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:32 PM UTC

johnea wrote: post #13

This 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...

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

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by sherdil2022 » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:32 PM UTC

Nothing is stopping anyone from recording the screen and capturing audio. However that is not the point. These features are required by regulated industries and companies like Microsoft can offer them. Plain and simple.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by import » Sat, May 10, 2025, 8:35 PM UTC

constantcrying wrote: post #21

bob1029 wrote: post #2

Any security feature that can be totally defeated with a spicy HDMI splitter and a 2nd computer should not exist. This stuff looks much more to me like "fuck the user" than anything else. I am 100% convinced there is a cult of evil bastards at Microsoft, et. al. that is hellbent on making everyone's UI/UX as janky as possible.

No. It is there to protect an organization from itself. It tells the participants that the content should not be shared by them. It is essentially like a watermark in a PDF. It can be trivially defeated, but that isn't the point.

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