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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 jay_kyburz »

userbinator wrote: post #225
smelendez wrote: post #153

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I’ve been on calls where a presenter explicitly asks that people not screenshot slides shown in the meeting because they’re drafts that will be refined and published or circulated later on. Some companies probably have that as a blanket policy. I’m sure this isn’t universally followed. This feature would help make that less likely to happen accidentally or “accidentally.” It wouldn’t stop deliberate leaks but that’s…

because they’re drafts that will be refined and published or circulated later on A big DRAFT watermark tends to clarify that far more easily and obviously.

But its not really a draft, they just want to reserve the right to change their mind some time later if there is any blowback :)

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by teo_zero »

nine_k wrote: post #229
tw04 wrote: post #191

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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…

Taking out a camera to make a picture is pretty noticeable in a meeting with few participants. The standard way to use a phone camera involves lifting it pretty close to your eye level. Other participants could literally shout to please stop photographing the screen. It will be also very visible who was trying to do so. Yes, somebody who's clever enough would keep the camera away from view, and maybe would try severa…

I'm not sure what scenario you're imagining, but Teams is mainly for remote meetings.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

Aachen wrote: post #157
MattPalmer1086 wrote: post #35

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People make mistakes. Why not put a simple control in that doesn't get in the way of any legitimate use?

The mistake being, what, accidentally sneezing onto the printscreen button so hard it depresses? This isn't the same as leaving a tool in someone; making and misplacing a screencap take active doing. If your meeting participants actively want to put data where it doesn't belong, the solution isn't accident prevention

The mistake being to intentionally take a copy of something confidential, because you forgot it was supposed to be confidential. People do things like this all the time.

It's essentially a guardrail. It can be easily circumvented if someone was being actively malicious.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

Aurornis wrote: post #203
smelendez wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been on calls where a presenter explicitly asks that people not screenshot slides shown in the meeting because they’re drafts that will be refined and published or circulated later on. Some companies probably have that as a blanket policy. I’m sure this isn’t universally followed. This feature would help make that less likely to happen accidentally or “accidentally.” It wouldn’t stop deliberate leaks but that’s…

We once had an intern who took screenshots of an internal presentation and posted them on the internet to brag about how cool his internship was. When we did his exit interview he admitted he just wasn’t thinking. He did it all in a couple minutes while in the meeting. Something like this would have stopped him in the process and made him remember that the content was sensitive. Don’t underestimate the diversity of t…

Yes, this is a great example of why a control like this is useful.

People do dumb things. The fact that it won't prevent a determined attacker isn't the point.

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Post by djmips »

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…

Or image search not identifying people which was actually kind of useful. But I understand the downside.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by csomar »

Aurornis wrote: post #81
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…

> 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…

Yeah, because blocking screenshots is security. How dumb could the world get? If you have sensitive information and a committed individual to leak those, then there is no way around if the picture is shared. What is next?

Startup idea: i-Secure. Your camera can only take/show photos of approved targets. All photos will be analyzed for safety. Unapproved/Unlocked camera devices from China are now illegal.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by djmips »

luke727 wrote: post #239
tw04 wrote: post #123

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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.

> But it’s literally the dumbest feature ever. My company recently configured Slack for mobile to disallow copying text.

That's frustrating. Can you can still, if you have Android, use the text capture feature built in that reads text from bitmaps? I use that everyday for sites and apps that don't allow copy paste.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by csomar »

Aurornis wrote: post #200
tw04 wrote: post #123

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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.

I think it’s funny that so many of these comments assume the person clicking the “enable screenshot protection” checkbox will be unaware that participants might have camera phones. It’s equally funny to read the comments imagining participants with elaborate pre-built workarounds like hidden pinhole cameras or pre-configured HDMI splitters going into full-screen video capture on another system. The people using this…

True. But if you start putting these speed bumps everywhere, suddenly the platform become a hell to use when you need to do/use/operate something. It is one of the reason why I moved from macOS or Linux despite really wanting to operate a macbook. macOS has become unbearable unless all you did for a living was videos, audio and normal web browsing.
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