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Second this. What's the point of this security aspect when everyone has their pocket cameras in their phones? This is nonsense.

The same is true for spyware installed on employee computers. Google laptops will snitch on you if you even attempt to attach USB drive. While there is HDMI and KVMs, there is no point of having these restrictions.

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Apps take screenshots all the time, e.g for crash reporting. Then they phone home with them. Most apps obviously ask politely when this happens but I’m sure there are exceptions. Not to mention malicious apps. There is no real security or isolation for screenshots that I’m aware of so app one will happily snap a picture of app two, without needing special permissions. That other app can be your password manager or baking browser tab. So apps explicitly opting into being in the picture is perhaps not such a bad idea.

> What's the point of this security aspect when everyone has their pocket cameras in their phones?

It's not to stop the people from screenshotting. It's to stop the accidental exposure via some screenshot or some other mechanism.

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