“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?
My problem with it is that it gives a sense of security that does not exist.
It gives security for 99% of people that will ever be on the calls, and most importantly it gives the company something to point to whenever they get security audits.
Non-Technical folk will click the button and think they’re safe
Non-technical folk aren’t usually responsible for setting policies in enterprise software lol. They won’t have an option.
Especially in the companies with the enterprise warning label non-technical idiots are in charge of setting technical policies because it is all about office politics there.
I really want to dump on them but I can’t find anything wrong with the feature… That’s depressing, I’ll have to look elsewhere for my dose of “MS can’t do anything right lol”
Sure, but it takes extra steps and the results won’t be as good as direct screen capture. It won’t stop someone determined, but it’s annoying enough that most people won’t bother.
Also most people don’t sit there in meetings with their finger on the screenshot key ready to go - but it is simple to just press a screenshot key on your keyboard. It’s a little bit harder to have your phone up and with the camera open the entire time ready to take photos, especially if cameras are on - especially if something just pops up briefly on screen and you realise you want to capture it.
This is only going to keep honest people honest.
It’s going to keep the overwhelming amount of people “honest”, and it’s going to give companies an extra tick box on any security audits that are integral to the company doing business.
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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My problem with it is that it gives a sense of security that does not exist.
Non-Technical folk will click the button and think they’re safe
It gives security for 99% of people that will ever be on the calls, and most importantly it gives the company something to point to whenever they get security audits.
Non-technical folk aren’t usually responsible for setting policies in enterprise software lol. They won’t have an option.
Especially in the companies with the enterprise warning label non-technical idiots are in charge of setting technical policies because it is all about office politics there.
If a company on enterprise plans has non-IT technical people doing their technical policies then nothing will save them.
I mean… Would it do the same with a 3rd party screenshot app? Or even something like obs? So many ways around it, no reason to get too upset.
Probably, but won’t really know until it comes out.
I really want to dump on them but I can’t find anything wrong with the feature… That’s depressing, I’ll have to look elsewhere for my dose of “MS can’t do anything right lol”
You can just take a picture with a camera, which is included with a device pretty much everyone carries with them every day.
Sure, but it takes extra steps and the results won’t be as good as direct screen capture. It won’t stop someone determined, but it’s annoying enough that most people won’t bother.
Sure, it keeps honest people honest, but does little if anything to stop the actual problem.
Bit more effort and harder to do when something only briefly flashes on screen than it is to hit the screenshot button on almost every keyboard.
If you know it’s blocked, you can have the camera ready. This is only going to keep honest people honest.
As I said in another comment:
It’s going to keep the overwhelming amount of people “honest”, and it’s going to give companies an extra tick box on any security audits that are integral to the company doing business.