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Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨excel24@feddit.org⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-teams-will-soon-block-screen-capture-during-meetings/

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  • leicharben@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Microsoft Teams will soon encourage users to point their phones at their screens from off camera during meetings

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    • Psythik@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah seriously; this won’t even stop normies. Everybody knows how to take a picture with their phone. Why bother?

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      • Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Hell a lot of people would probably default to using a phone because they don’t know how print screen works.

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  • Bieren@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is so you can then use their super cool and completely accurate AI summary tool that will be coming soon.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “The meeting was about polishing yaks. The conclusion was green is important fudge.”

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The important bit:

    Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.

    And I presume everything except Windows 11 Teams will be considered “unsupported”.

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I used to be able to join teams meetings in the browser version of teams from my Linux machine. I did my last job interview this way

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      • mrvictory1@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams

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      • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There’s also the unofficial flatpak, which works rather well.

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    • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.

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      • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Stop using microsoft teams, ya dolt.

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    • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know to what extent they’ll go, but yes, this and the Advanced Chat Privacy in WhatsApp are just user locking moves.

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    • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i trust signing in through the browser on linux will be supported since that’s the official way to use teams on linux

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        except on firefox of course

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Aahhwww, that is so sad, I run Linux and soon our entire office will.

      Guess we won’t be using teams then, ooaaahhhwww, so sad

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      • bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What do you use for video calls with screen share?

        My coop uses teams and I want to move them off it.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Read the article man

      This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Good. Do me a favour and block the audio as well.

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    • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Did you even read the article.

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  • kayazere@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.

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  • lipilee@feddit.nl ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    now that all the performance, reliability, and usability issues are solved in Teams, it’s great to see all that energy going into this useful feature that is surely not possible to circumvent in any way.

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    • SubUrbanIT@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now we get to break it.

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  • OccasionallyFeralya@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    To be clear this is an option enabled by the host. It most likely won’t be used for normal meetings.

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  • FermionWrangler@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There will be ways to capture it anyway. Probably specific software designed for GPU capture, since that’s how these apps “prevent” capturing, using GPU trickery.

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    • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The announcement from MS and the linked article both also mention this, though they recommend the real analogue hole: a separate camera pointed at the screen.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    More and more, I notice that Microsoft’s ubiquity in our society is to reinforce the idea that we need to take abuse and reward our abusers in order to be successful.

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  • SubUrbanIT@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gonna be difficult to block screen capture when I have a phone in my hand with a camera that can be record what I see.

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    • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t be so bold. Microsoft is investing in military AI applications. So don’t be surprised when your computer slaps that camera right out of your hands and punches you in the face. /j (or not, idk, things are looking bad)

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There are some autonomous cars with lidar out there where the lidar is so powerful it can wreck a camera close up, but is still safe for eyes.

        Switch up FaceID to use a more powerful laser which will wreck the phones camera.

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you’re saying that I can just start an infinite empty meeting in order to block the AI Recall thing from recording my screen?

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, no, AI Recall has “special privileges” - just you lusers don’t.

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  • msbeta1421@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I hate stuff like this because screen grabs during meetings or lectures is my favorite way to take notes.

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    • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nooooo. If you do that, you won’t be paying for Teams Premium which has built in support for screen recording. Think of the revenue lost 😭😭

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Now I know why they’re trying to push corporate users off of Linux, again.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why would one use an intentionally impaired tool?

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    • Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because the company one works at is entangled in Microsoft products and totally dependend on it.

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    • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We dont make the decision as to what suite to use?

      Literally no one but our CFO ad shareholders like microsoft.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My company is transitioning to teams. Most of our engineering is on Linux.

    Can Microsoft please hurry up and break teams so we can’t transition?

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    • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Most of our engineering is on Linux

      God I wish my company allowed that

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      • MRIG@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is fairly common in software development.

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      • jamescrakemerani@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I have a Linux work laptop which they let us have but we still have to use the MS crap. Fortunately most of it is accessible through the browser but a lot of the Office apps are broken, or missing features on web.

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, teams is always somewhere between 10%-30% broken, always something n doesn’t work, there are always a bunch of people that can’t get in the meeting, that can’t share screens all of the sudden because fuck you, that’s why

      Teams is the absolute worst and not a day goes by without people shitting on it, and we’re only using it because most of our customers do but internally we will switch to something open source soon, because I get to make that decision 😎

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I have looked but I just couldn’t find an open source alternative that supported Teams core features like showing an error every time I login.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        you know, sometimes I wonder if Matrix could be used in a business setting, and worry about its rough edges and buggy features of Element. but you know what! it would probably be fine! not worse than teams, and at least they don’t want to fuck you over!

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    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If Co is willing to use it in current state, all the breaking in the world is not going to change their mind.

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    • bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content. 

      I think this has gone and done it for you

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    • iLStrix@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OK, I’m really curious on what programs your engineers use then. Engineering has been one of the use-cases for me, that made it basically impossible to switch to Linux full-time. If you know, please tell me.

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      • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        All the EDA tools for silicon design are Linux based.

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      • BlackPenguins@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We have Linux. We just use the in browser app. Works fine.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are going to be fifty different bypasses up on github by the end of the week. This makes me want to join a corpo and record their precious meetings

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Run teams in a VM and take a screen shot from the host OS.

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    • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow…

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      • tauren@lemm.ee ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Recording a 1h meeting with a smartphone sounds like a nightmare.

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      • embed_me@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Like record it using a camera? That’s a substantial downgrade

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    • kepix@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      on a work laptop?

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      • morphballganon@mtgzone.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Some of us have remote desktop capabilities on our wfh machines

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  • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled

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    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are you stupid? Next week they will sell an add on that let’s you recall the whole meeting. You need to start thinking outside the box if you’re gonna make it in scummy corporate sales.

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    i mean if someone really wanted to commit espionage they’d just take a photo of the screen with their camera.

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    • humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I suspect running teams on Windows in Parallels on a Mac would still let me use the Mac’s screen record feature.

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pointless.

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  • Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So many commenters here and at the article get a hard on to bash MS for anything.

    MS won’t make this a requirement, nor will they make using the Teams app a requirement. This isnt some backhanded way to get people to switch from Linux to windows.

    This is MS responding to an enterprise feature request.

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    • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The reflexive hate for M$ is not irrational fan-boys bashing a rival, but bitterness over prolonged and profound annoyance, suffering, and downright abuse experienced through using the products produced by that dogshit company.

      I switched because I wanted software that didn’t hate me and my values.

      What’s irrational is the Stockholm-syndrome Windows user who thinks it’s normal and right to run software that spies, advertises, and generally treats users like a resource to be exploited.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Both are irrational IMO. Don’t make up reasons to hate a feature, but do attack the features that spy on you.

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    • biofaust@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I bet they will still make it default.

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    • mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The moment a certain company is mentioned in an article, lemmy will go rabid, it doesn’t really matter what the article is about. I am a Linux nerd and if MS crashed and burned tomorrow I wouldn’t exactly shed a tear but the knee jerk reactions are pretty weird to observe.

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    • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, commented on the sister thread of this over on the technology subreddit that this wouldnt be a default on feature, and probably be either something the meeting owner has to enable (or tenant admins set to enabled in a policy) or it will be part of sensitivity labels or DLP policies.

      Instant downvote.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Rules for thee not mee

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  • Grimtuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ll have to use the camera phone again then.

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  • AllBiMyself@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings.

    Clickbait title

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  • toastmeister@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is why they require a TPM, your motherboard will be DRM against you owning the operating system.

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  • MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    [laughs in rdp from another machine]

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “To address the issue of unauthorized screen captures during meetings, the Prevent Screen Capture feature ensures that if a user attempts to take a screen capture, the meeting window will turn black, thereby protecting sensitive information,” Microsoft shared in a new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry.

    “This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).”

    Yeah, seems like a perfectly reasonable feature to add. It will also likely be a toggle-able feature switch.

    Surely there’s no way Lemmy gets angry at this, right?

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  • phantomwise@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s okay people, even if the feature in itself is not awful, MS Teams still is awful. We can still bash on MS to relieve past Windows trauma.

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  • ouch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android).”

    What about Teams browser?

    OBS Studio has been able to record Teams meetings so far, on Linux.

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  • nocteb@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So does running teams in a windows vm prevent me to take a screenshot on the Linux host? I can’t imagine it would.

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  • Kannushi_Link@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So it would block screen/video capture, but will it block sound-only capture, too?

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