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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 elmerfud »

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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Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by nonane »

Which APIs would one use to implement this feature on Mac and Windows? For example is there a OS level flag that one can include on windows to not allow capturing of the app’s window - or is a notification sent out when someone tries to capture the screen (and then one can just blank the window)?

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by dist-epoch »

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.

I'm pretty sure you can use some HDMI capture device to do that easier.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by MattPalmer1086 »

codingdave wrote: post #4

At some point, you need to trust your staff. If you do not trust them to keep confidential information private, then why are you giving them the information in the first place?

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

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by rchaud »

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.

That's the equivalent of sitting in a movie theater with a camcorder. Not important enough to bother crafting a solution for.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by [deleted] »

nonane wrote: post #33

Which APIs would one use to implement this feature on Mac and Windows? For example is there a OS level flag that one can include on windows to not allow capturing of the app’s window - or is a notification sent out when someone tries to capture the screen (and then one can just blank the window)?

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Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by timewizard »

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.

My complete guess would be a legal team asked for this. You can easily imagine several scenarios that would prompt them to seek out a feature like this.

I think this because our company recently enforced a 2 year mail deletion policy on all mailboxes for "legal reasons." Which were "we don't want stuff to show up in discovery if we get sued."

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by rf15 »

mingus88 wrote: post #17
codingdave wrote: post #4

At some point, you need to trust your staff. If you do not trust them to keep confidential information private, then why are you giving them the information in the first place?

You can’t really sniff out disgruntled employees until they act on it.

maybe if your employees are disgruntled and feel like they can't talk to you about it you are shit at your job
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