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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 Aurornis »

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 want.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by asadotzler »

johnnyo wrote: post #80
chevman wrote: post #69

Most 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 ar…

> This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)." Seems like it’s even easier, just join the meeting via browser. I’m not familiar with a way to enforce this type of restriction in the browser.

Browser DRM like WideVine and PlayReady do the enforcing

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by asadotzler »

mindcrash wrote: post #42

That's quite unfortunate because due to a screen capture through Snipping Tool I got evidence of my org planning to fire me before even making announcements through a shared PowerPoint deck with a slide containing a org chart which shouldn't really be there at the time in the Teams meeting. 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 the…

use your smartphone's camera next time. that puts the evidence on your device rather than your company's device.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by watwut »

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…

Lets blame laws and regulations for features private companies decide to implement, because I guess that will help us destroy the state.

Stop making up laws and regulations that dont exist.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by rvba »

chevman wrote: post #69

Most 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 ar…

The things you mention are a dream for most corporate employees, where everything is locked on their computers.

They will just make photos using their phones.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by immibis »

rolph wrote: post #47
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.

the Analogue hole Will never Die

They tried to. They tried to make cameras illegal. Remember that?

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by Aurornis »

Frost1x wrote: post #74
Aurornis wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their…

> I don’t know about you but sometimes it’s some small piece of information that isn’t worth contacting the presenter about. I need to call or craft an email, be polite and come up with some nonsense greeting maybe for a bullet point or two or a string I don’t want to rapidly shift focus to duplicate by hand. Then I have to sit around and wait for a response where they have to do the same, and I’m definitely not their priority.

So it’s something critically important for you to get your job done, but also something that’s not worth writing a couple sentence e-mail about, but also going to block your work while you sit around and wait all day for it?

Communication is the foundation of any office job. If you’re in a meeting with these people, just ask in the meeting? If you can’t, send an email during the meeting and you haven’t lost any time. It’s really not as hard as you’re trying to make it sound.

I generally discourage people from using ChatGPT for office communication, but to be honest if writing a simple e-mail request to get something you need for your job triggers this level of overthinking, you might benefit from letting it at least draft the email to get you started and past the analysis paralysis.

Re: Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Post by to11mtm »

johnnyo wrote: post #80
chevman wrote: post #69

Most 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 ar…

> This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)." Seems like it’s even easier, just join the meeting via browser. I’m not familiar with a way to enforce this type of restriction in the browser.

From the Article, if only to be pedantic enough that I agree with 'yes a browser might work'

> The company plans to start rolling out this new Teams feature to Android, desktop, iOS, and web users worldwide in July 2025.

OTOH we will see if there's any type of weasel-wording on whether browser is in fact non-supported (i.e. will go to audio-only mode.)

The other possibility, is that every 'supported' platform has some form of DRM that results in the functionality working even on browser (just thinking out loud about DRM functionality possibilities) means Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS all work but everyone else is out of luck.

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