Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
To be clear this is an option enabled by the host. It most likely won’t be used for normal meetings.
This is so you can then use their super cool and completely accurate AI summary tool that will be coming soon.
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.
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)
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, and start making webcams for non macs that are required to have this in them for Teams to work.
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?
Oh, no, AI Recall has "special privileges" - just you lusers don't.
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.
/s
Now we get to break it.
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.
Simplest way is a Windows VM and screen capture in the OS running the VM. Obviously next step for Microsoft is to detect and block Windows VMs, good luck to them with that.
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.
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
I hate stuff like this because screen grabs during meetings or lectures is my favorite way to take notes.
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 😭😭
Edit: I should add /s incase people think I'm a Microsoft shill
Now I know why they're trying to push corporate users off of Linux, again.
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”.
So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.
i trust signing in through the browser on linux will be supported since that's the official way to use teams on linux
except on firefox of course, because fuck you for even trying to protect a little bit of your privacy
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.
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).
Did you even read the article.
they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled
Microsoft Teams will soon encourage users to point their phones at their screens from off camera during meetings
Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.
i mean if someone really wanted to commit espionage they'd just take a photo of the screen with their camera.
I suspect running teams on Windows in Parallels on a Mac would still let me use the Mac’s screen record feature.
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.
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.
I bet they will still make it default.
Because Lemmy Linux bros like to get their titty in a twist.
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.
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.
[laughs in rdp from another machine]
Laughs at all the cell phone camera captures that will start showing up...
Pointless.
I'll have to use the camera phone again then.
This is why they require a TPM, your motherboard will be DRM against you owning the operating system and it will only run signed software.
I installed Windows 11 with an unsupported CPU, kinda funny how it just worked despite all their screeching that it wouldn't work and updating not working, but installing with installation media was flawless.
It's a real bitch, automatically logging me into my partner's account for the whole system and overriding my local user settings when I open MS Office apps Excel or Word (but that's just Windows), and it cries about my lack of TPM on those apps and the Start menu when it does log in and cries about me not being logged into a MS account otherwise, but you know what? Everything still actually operates.
...for now.
What CPU?
The list of unsupported CPUs is for OEMs licensing new computers as Windows 11 certified.
Nothing stopping you installing Windows 11 or upgrading to Windows 11 with an incompatible CPU.
The only item that requires a hack is the lack of TPM. Now that I still don't understand.
Also, Office by default installs with licensing configured per machine but can be installed so it is licensed per user.
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.
Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings.
Clickbait title
Doubt it will prevent flameshot from working if I use teams in firefox
"This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)."
Knowing ms they'll just make browsers audio only going forward
"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.
regarding the quote, will they just not let linux users connect to the call when that restriction is turned on?
edit: nvm, the article talks about that too
So it would block screen/video capture, but will it block sound-only capture, too?
It will be funny if they try, because plenty of presentation setups will break
Jerb security.
So does running teams in a windows vm prevent me to take a screenshot on the Linux host? I can't imagine it would.
I can't see how it would. Can a VM tell it's a VM?
Welp, there goes any accountability.
So take a fucking picture with your phone
No you.