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Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster” (www.theverge.com)

submitted 5 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Rinox@feddit.it 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think only the player is blocked, and would be shown in the screenshots as a black rectangle

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So it’s not a new feature. Since windows 95 print screen can’t screenshot videos for technical issues. Instead of fixing the bug they’re promoting it to feature

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not a bug, it's 110% intentional and not only for the windows default screenshot utility. The whole pipeline is built in such a way to prevent you from taking screenshots or capturing video of a DRM protected player.

Even in Linux, afaik, you can't simply take screenshots or record a Netflix movie playing in the browser. Yes there are ways, but not with the default applications (you need to break the encryption)

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember that in the windows 9x age I tried taking screenshots of the matrix avi and all I got was a black rectangle. I assumed that it was how the graphics worked as when pasted in paint it would act like a “hole” where if you moved the window it stayed in the place of the video player. Like if it’s not in the graphic buffer because it’s an accelerated directx video or something like that. Not an expert and also more than 20 years passed and my memory is wonky

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

That's precisely how the old ATI TV tuner cards worked. They masked part of your display and any pixels that were the mask color became the video player, because the decoding and injection into your video signal was happening in hardware on the tuner card, not on your regular graphics card.

This allowed you to do dumb stunts like scribble hot magenta areas anywhere on your screen with MS Paint and the scribbled areas would magically become video from the TV tuner.