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

When Microsoft announced Recall they explicitly mention that it won't record drm video. Won't record private Browser windows. Will have configuration for what apps/windows to exclude.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Earlier 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.

It's not pure security theater, there are a few clear gains for those who care about such things: * Naive screencaps are much less traceable to the leaker than a naive photo is. Yes, someone can strip out EXIF data, but we've seen over and over again that they generally don't. And even without EXIF a naive framing on the photo is more likely to expose information about the location or identity of the person who took…

Good summary. It's best to think of controls like this as guardrails. They are mostly "safety" features rather than hard-core security features. They help honest people to avoid potentially dangerous mistakes.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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

Why would Recall be allowed to screenshot DRMed content?

It wouldn't, but nobody criticising Recall uses Windows or had read the announcement

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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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.

Same with door locks. If you don't have Protec2 and an armed guard at the door why bother

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

#268

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…

It's a pointless and stupid feature. It's trivial to take a picture of the screen with your phone.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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post #123

Earlier 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.

Nah, this would stop a lot of threats. I'm an example of that threat. I'm a freelancer who often has video calls with new clients. Sometimes I surreptitiously screen cap demos or presentations. It would be very difficult to use a phone that way without breaking the conversational flow. Other supposed workarounds would require much more preplanning. Like I'd need to know that there was something worth capturing.

Preplannig? As in putting your phone in front of your keyboard and hitting record?

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

#270

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…

What's really going to happen is IT people will enforce this by default because good users aren't supposed to take screenshots, apparently.
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