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People on Windows are about to go through a similar experience as Microsoft removes ways of capturing your desktop without an obnoxious orange border around the
by madrox 5y ago
People on Windows are about to go through a similar experience as Microsoft removes ways of capturing your desktop without an obnoxious orange border around the window being recorded. The logic is there…you want it obvious and in the user’s face if something malicious is watching them, but it makes benign use cases obnoxious.
Stuff like this is bad security design because it punts responsibility to the end user. It doesn’t actually stop anything bad from happening. If your design can’t decide whether to stop a program from capturing the mic, how do you expect my grandma to?
- MikusR 5y agoThe border is on screen, but not in captured video.
- Diggsey 5y agoExcept microsoft actually listened to feedback before rolling this out everywhere: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.graphics.capture.graphicscapturesession.isborderrequired?view=winrt-20348#Windows_Graphics_Capture_GraphicsCaptureSession_IsBorderRequired https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.graphics.ca... Plus there's almost certainly some registry key you could change to turn it off on a per user basis.