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Awesome, this was really needed. No, this isn't a "security" feature and it obviously can be easily circumvented. The reason this is useful is to make it extremely clear to participants that the contents should not be shared by them.
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 their phone pointed at the screen and be done with it, I guess.
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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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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The workaround that Microsoft is officially supports but isnt mentioning it.....is using microsoft recall.
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.
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.
For sensitive data on the other hand quality doesn't matter as long as it's readable.
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.
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.
Streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus use these APIs to protect their content as well.