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.
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”.
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
There’s also the unofficial flatpak, which works rather well.
No, it sucks. The Linux app does not support screen sharing on Wayland, but it works fine in the browser
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
So now my clients will have a harder time engaging with my product. Great.
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
Pointless.
I'll have to use the camera phone again then.
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
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.
they should also blank the screen if the user has recall enabled
Microsoft is working on adding a new Teams feature that will prevent users from capturing screenshots of sensitive information shared during meetings.
Clickbait title
No, the title is quite accurate. There is no magic to discern "sensitive" data from that which is not.
It’s not accurate because it will be an optional feature.
Yeah, not seeing this as the big bad everyone thinks it is. We regularly have Teams meetings with other companies when they’re sharing their proprietary info. I’m okay with a screen capture disabling function just like we’d want to use from time to time.
From the article:
Those joining from unsupported platforms will be automatically placed in audio-only mode to protect shared content.
and
"This feature will be available on Teams desktop applications (both Windows and Mac) and Teams mobile applications (both iOS and Android)."
So this is actually worse than just blocking screen capturing. This will break video calls for some setups for no reason at all since all it takes to break this is a phone camera - one of the most common things in the world.
That's pure speculation. Did you even read the article?
Edit: here, let me help you:
Also, Microsoft has yet to share if the feature will be enabled by default or can be toggled on and off by meeting organizers or admins.
What part of the headline suggests the feature is mandatory? Assuming its mandatory doesn't pass the critical thinking "sniff test" because what is sensitive is purely subjective. Microsoft has no way of knowing what data you consider sensitive. As in, there's no way Microsoft could make it mandatory on only "sensitive" data.
“Microsoft” “will” “block”
Those parts of the title.
The source though indicates that it will be a Feature and it even has its own name. Sadly it doesn’t point out that it will be optional.
Additionally you can see in the comments of the article that people think this will be mandatory.
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
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.
Because Lemmy Linux bros like to get their titty in a twist.
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.
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 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
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.
To be clear this is an option enabled by the host. It most likely won’t be used for normal meetings.
"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.
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?
There are plenty of ways for a VM to tell that it's a VM and not on baremetal, but there's not really a way for a program running on an OS in the VM to block the Host OS or hypervisor software from capturing an image of the screen of the VM.
Welp, there goes any accountability.
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.
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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