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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 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, and start making webcams for non macs that are required to have this in them for Teams to work.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Oh, no, AI Recall has "special privileges" - just you lusers don't.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why would one use an intentionally impaired tool?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

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

Literally no one but our CFO ad shareholders like microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 😭😭

Edit: I should add /s incase people think I'm a Microsoft shill

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] phx 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks Microsoft, I'm investing in cell-phone tripods today.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day 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.

[–] adespoton 131 points 1 day ago (19 children)

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”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 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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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago (12 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[laughs in rdp from another machine]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Laughs at all the cell phone camera captures that will start showing up...

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