Microsoft Edge will start blocking screenshots on the job
pcworld.com
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I don’t take screenshots at work to share with any of these people. I take them to share with co-workers for business purposes.
If this is blocked and someone wants to share something with competitors, relatives, or journalists, can’t they just take a picture with their phone or a camera? Then it’s never on equipment the company has control over.
My dad worked at a place that blocked the ability to take screenshots on a company phone. The IT department needed proof he was on a certain release of the OS, and they asked him take a screenshot of his settings. He explained they blocked this feature. They told him to use another phone/camera to take a picture of the screen and send that. He tried to point out how silly it was to lock down screenshots when the work around is so obvious, but that didn’t matter. It was all about the illusion of security, not actually stopping anything.
Correct. The "IT security" group was practicing what I've termed "checkbox security".
They have a long list of "requirements" and beside each is a check box. If they can check the box by reading the marketing brochure for product X, then they are "secure". In this case one of their check boxes was "screen shots disallowed". So they turned off screen shots, and were able to "check the box" and therefore they were "secure" (at least by their definition, which is "if the box is checked, we are secure"). The fact that trivial workaround exist make no difference to the IT security checkbox specialist.
All in all, I think it's a step up from what came before. A security problem is invisible until you get attacked. Then random unrelated people get caught up in the fallout.
Checkbox security moves the pain to inside the company, where internal forces will provide pushback if a requirement is too onerous. That pushback is exactly what happens for this overly onerous requirement here.
And here Microsoft is worried about screenshots.
Opting out is possible, and the barriers to doing so have dropped massively as hardware vendors have brought full support to Linux and software vendors like Steam have built out native support.
Meanwhile Microsoft keeps shoving ads in Windows in new and interesting places while Apple forces your computer to report back to them every time you open an app (which sometimes bricks causing a litany of issues).
And Edge for Biz will make it palatable?
huh
This seems to be about spyware and not against individual employees manually screenshoting, right? They can’t be that dumb?