I have a hearing disability. I often recorded meetings so that I could replay and listen to key points again.
This is going to block a valid use of screen recording and I wonder if it would violate A.D.A. requirements
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
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#62Interesting 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.
That was my first thought also. I suppose if the presenter wants no screenshots they’d also want cameras on and you’d have to be pretty sly about using your phone. Either way, dumb. The analog hole can’t be closed.
Sounds like they’ll want to disable the camera controls next.
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#63Interesting 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.
It’s not literally every Teams meeting.
It’s an option the presenter can turn on when needed.
If you need the data from the presenter to do your job, presumably you’d contact them and ask.
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#64Any 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.
They could just integrate Web DRM APIs like Google Widevine, Microsoft PlayReady, and Apple FairPlay, as both of them are integrated into the operating system and only work with a supported monitor. An HDMI splitter would likely not pass the test. Streaming services like Netflix and Disney Plus use these APIs to protect their content as well.
That's why OP mentioned a spicy HDMI splitter. HDMI splitters are allowed to break HDCP, which means that protection doesn't really matter.
I use a setup like this frequently for work to demo our Android TV based apps with full content even though it all has DRM applied. Always leads to a "how did you get this footage" line of questioning for anyone who knows that we use DRM.
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#65This is just to serve as a reminder of who actually "owns" your computer. Overwhelmingly, people who speak in favor of windows, grew up using it. It's like the indoctrination of any religous cult, it works best when you start young. One has to wonder when the world will recover from windoze brain damage...
Is that really any different than those that grew up with a Mac?
It's not a Windows vs Mac thing. It's using closed-source software vs open-source, i.e. Windows & Mac vs Linux et al.
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#66This is just to serve as a reminder of who actually "owns" your computer. Overwhelmingly, people who speak in favor of windows, grew up using it. It's like the indoctrination of any religous cult, it works best when you start young. One has to wonder when the world will recover from windoze brain damage...
Is that really any different than those that grew up with a Mac?
Really only as a matter of scale.
The main vendor locking practice of M$, has been to cut deals w/ h/w makers to preinstall windoze on their new computers.
This caused many many more people to face childhood indoctrination into windoze than into macOS.
Tangentially, over many years apple was a less malicious company than M$, but that advantage has waned in recent years.
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#67At 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?
I have some friends who work in a medical facility. They get an extreme amount of training on patient privacy laws and constant reminders not to get sensitive patient information on to their personal devices.
Despite the intense training and constant warnings, it happens constantly. And that’s just the cases they know about and address.
You have to be able to trust your staff, but you also have to be realistic that any organization at scale will have people who either don’t care or don’t think and it happens frequently.
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#68is this something you have to enable(or disable) for your tenant? or for a particular meeting? i don't understand from the article
i don't see why would you want to enable this, unless you have BYOD allowed
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#69Most folks know this is easily defeated typically by viewing the content on another device (eg via casting it, remote desktop, phone mirroring, etc) or viewing it from within a VM, and then using the native screen capture functionality on the viewing device to record/screenshot whatever you need.
That being said - guessing they are doing this for their enterprise customers mainly, where alot of those other options are locked down. But plenty of people already know to just record their screen from their phone anyway - impossible to block that and much safer way to exfiltrate whatever info/data you need.
Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
#70I have a hearing disability. I often recorded meetings so that I could replay and listen to key points again. This is going to block a valid use of screen recording and I wonder if it would violate A.D.A. requirements
Your employer has an obligation to provide reasonable accommodations for your disability. There could be a number of solutions including:
* paying for professional human captioning of the meetings you're in (automated captions are not accurate enough to be relied on) * the host using Teams' own recording system and providing only you with the recording, maybe only the audio