Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings

Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @04:04AM (#43952222)

Good summary. It's best to think of controls like this as guardrails. They are mostly "safety" features rather than hard-core security features. They help honest people to avoid potentially dangerous mistakes.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by cwillu on Sunday May 11, 2025 @05:29AM (#43952561)

Guardrails that break support for devices that aren't owned by the equipment manufacturer, yeah, about that…

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @05:50AM (#43952635)

It doesn't do anything of the sort. It will work on PCs, Web, Android and iOS - everything with a supported client.

Not sure what "support" you expect for unsupported clients.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by i-zu on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:42AM (#43952858)

Will it though? If I join from Linux using Ferdium or any other browser what will prevent me from using any screenshooter? Or will web be considered an unsupported platform?

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:59AM (#43952925)

The article says web is supported. Whether that means all browsers or just some, no idea.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by cwillu on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:27AM (#43953041)

Perhaps a little less snark would be appropriate if you don't know what other people are talking about.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Sunday May 11, 2025 @07:38AM (#43953093)

Apologies if I came across snarky, not my intention.

It's definitely not true that this feature breaks support for devices not owned by the manufacturer. The follow on question about whether all possible web clients / operating systems would be supported, I don't know. The article just says that web is supported.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by cwillu on Monday May 12, 2025 @01:24AM (#43959881)

This isn't “we haven't tested your browser, if it breaks, that's on you”, this is “we don't specifically Trust™ the environment you're running your browser in, therefore fuck you.”

“Web is supported” in this instance just means “the web, but only when mediated by google, microsoft or apple”, which is not the web as far as I'm concerned.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Monday May 12, 2025 @03:03AM (#43960339)

Hmmmm, I use Firefox on Linux to access Teams currently. Guess we'll see if that breaks.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by olyjohn on Monday May 12, 2025 @05:13PM (#43967518)

Of course it's going to break. Remember when they built an actual Teams client for Linux? Remember how much Microsoft <3 Linux? Yeah, you're fucked buddy.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Monday May 12, 2025 @06:33PM (#43968072)

Oh well, I'll use something else then. Not worth getting upset about really.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by cwillu on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:09AM (#43969779)

Nothing that doesn't require a chain of Trust™ to the operating system will work, which is the point at which I start to get upset.

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by Seb-C on Sunday May 11, 2025 @11:19PM (#43959337)

> They help honest people to avoid potentially dangerous mistakes.

They also can prevent honest people from gathering proofs to cover or defend themselves: abusive boss, illegal requests, harassment...

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Re:Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during mee... by MattPalmer1086 on Monday May 12, 2025 @03:08AM (#43960359)

You can always use your phone to record it if there's some overriding reason to break the confidentiality protection. Or have a witness be present during a call (maybe out of sight).

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