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Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by lolinder »

crote wrote: post #192
lolinder wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need to elaborate on mechanisms for bypassing because you're already imagining a threat actor that is out of scope. This is primarily about blocking accidental leaks by regular employees who were asked to not record but ignored it. This kind of reuse of content happens all the time in companies of any significant size and isn't entirely stopped by simple requests or watermarks. This tool gives companies one…

> This is primarily about blocking accidental leaks by regular employees who were asked to not record but ignored it. I think you're seriously overestimating regular employees. A significant number of people will send you smartphone pictures when you ask for a screenshot - why would they suddenly start looking into on-device screen capture when taking a picture or video of some random presentation?

I already addressed this possibility in my first comment. Points 1+2.

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Post by kenjackson »

Aeolun wrote: post #162
lolinder wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am not screenshotting for espionage, I am screenshotting to accomplish my job. This is literally the threat model that this feature is protecting against: it gives presenters a way to say "no really, when I say don't record I mean don't record". If people end up overusing it at your company, that's a problem to address with them, but I can totally imagine use cases where you would want to turn this on just as an…

No, no, what they’re doing is making it harder for me to work around their (inevitably misplaced) expectations of confidentiality. This is one of those things that will be misused to hell and back so we’re better off not having the feature at all. It’s existence is a net negative to corporate employees everywhere.

The other commenter is right. Same reason I use DRM email. It’s not that I’m stopping espionage, but reminding folks that this message shouldn’t be distributed to others.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by Helmut10001 »

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…

I could not figure out how to record phone calls on Android! No app worked. I know it is forbidden in the EU, but I forget so many important details from calls that this would be very important.

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Post by tw04 »

Aurornis wrote: post #202
tw04 wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in security. I have had customers request this feature. I have asked them to do an anonymous survey of users to ask what action they would take if they were blocked from taking screenshots and users universally say they’d take a picture of their screen with their phone. I don’t underestimate friction, I just know even my grandma would reach for her camera for a picture of her screen and she doesn’t even know w…

> I have asked them to do an anonymous survey of users to ask what action they would take if they were blocked from taking screenshots and users universally say they’d take a picture of their screen with their phone. Everyone knows this. You don’t need this survey (which surely was a real thing that actually occurred and not something you just conveniently imagined for this argument, right?) to tell you that. It’s li…

It’s literally not friction. The average user has no clue how to take a screenshot. They all know how to take a picture with their phone.

It’s a solution searching for a problem it can’t solve.

Friction implies you’re stopping a user from taking an action they consider the easiest way to solve the problem. Since you think I “invented” the survey, I invite you to ask all of you non technical friends and family how they would go about capturing an image of their computer screen if they needed to quickly show you a copy of what they’re looking at.

I absolutely guarantee you that taking a picture with their phone will be the winner by an order of magnitude.

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Post by Derbasti »

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.

Could you trivially circumvent this by running Teams in the browser?

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Post by adrr »

mindcrash wrote: post #42

That's quite unfortunate because due to a screen capture through Snipping Tool I got evidence of my org planning to fire me before even making announcements through a shared PowerPoint deck with a slide containing a org chart which shouldn't really be there at the time in the Teams meeting. So from a employee POV it has its uses. But people who will get in the same situation like me could simply use the camera on the…

I would always screenshot people's desktop/email when they started presenting, lot of people dig up decks in their email or they share their full desktop. Emails are useful especially when dealing with a vendor to see what other customers they are dealing with.

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Post by drawfloat »

wmf wrote: post #71
tonetegeatinst wrote: post #3

The workaround that Microsoft is officially supports but isnt mentioning it.....is using microsoft recall.

Why would Recall be allowed to screenshot DRMed content?

Because Recall would lose its entire purpose if it cannot recall any of your working day.
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