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> Using a screenshot tool should be safe. It will treat all pixels on the screen the same Nope. Microsoft Office has an option/plugin that lets you flag email
by Kon-Peki 4y ago
> Using a screenshot tool should be safe. It will treat all pixels on the screen the same
Nope. Microsoft Office has an option/plugin that lets you flag emails and documents as restricted. You can, for example, send such an email to someone else. That person can open the email and use a screenshot tool on that email. What they will get is a flat gray box where the email content was.
Not all pixels on the screen are the same. And you have no idea if your computer tattled on you and let the sending org know that you tried to screenshot the email.
- thrashh 4y agoWhen they mean safe, they mean it doesn’t expose any extra data to a new person This thread has nothing to do with preventing your source from finding out
- Kon-Peki 4y agoMy anecdote demonstrates that the operating system is clearly not treating all pixels the same, which is exactly what I wrote. And the screenshot tool participates in this. This MS Office trick is a quick and easy way to show someone that you can’t trust Windows when it comes to screenshots. Ignore it at your own risk.
- deadbunny 4y agoI mean other email clients exist...
- greggyb 4y agoIf you use Outlook to restrict an email and send that to me at a non-Microsoft-affiliated account (that I access from a non Microsoft OS), I have to imagine the restriction is worthless.
- Sylamore 4y agoMy child's school uses this feature when they email parents, you have to open the email up in a web browser and the web browser has to be allowed/supported by outlook web access to render. I haven't tried to screenshot it, but it's annoying as hell getting one of those emails on my iPhone.