Quotes from the article merged and edited by myself:
Signal Desktop on Windows 11 includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats. Signal implemented Digital Rights Management (DRM) that works for you instead of against you to hide content from Recall or any other screenshot application.
I’m surprised (in a good way) that Signal addressed this major issue so soon. When Signal gate turned out to be worse than we initially thought (my post, @Penguin_Terminal’s post), I got worried about Recall taking screenshots of Signal messages, which would create similar problems on a much larger scale. Fortunately, the Signal team is proactive.
This is the very first user case of DRM that I support. Unbelievable, DRM has been around for at least 30+ years and only now is there a meaningful use-case.
I wanna ask wdym by not quite
This is literally a cool and also legitimate way to mitigate this. Also I’ve seen the thread there’s not any better insights, they’re making great points imo. (basically DRM being used not against you but against Recall and potentially but not likely unsolicited screenshots)
Now @potemkinhr has brought up the point of how microsoft could decide to bypass that but now that I think about it, wouldn’t microsoft be risking legal trouble if they decided to just make DRM Enabled Apps/Websites visible? Just saying.
Well, I’m not a 100% sure either to be honest. Based on the thread on PG forum, it’s not exactly DRM but them simply using Windows API in a better way to ensure of this? That’s what I meant.
I don’t know a lot about this.. I’m learning just as everyone else is but as I understand it as much as I have read, it’s not exactly DRM as what DRM historically has been.
it is the DRM Windows API thing. That’s how signal is Able to make recall not see the signal messages.
If they had any other way, Microsoft could like Nyx speculates, someday just take it off and reveal the signal messages, with DRM, Microsoft would be risking legal trouble and therefore just can’t take the band aid off like that.
But it is still different than what DRM is otherwise and elsewhere for what it is meant to be, no?
For example: Kindle content, Audible content, streaming content all have DRM but this Signal update is different to that kind of DRM? From what I can read and understand, that’s what it seems like.
edited to add clarification, I stand behind the statement. Even Encounter on the Privacy Guides says “…DRM for good”, so it is DRM, just implemented in a good way
if you maybe read the rest (of the thread) you would understand. Point is DRM is a bulletproof/super effective method to block recall from seeing the messages because again legally speaking (Disclaimer: not a lawyer) Microsoft can’t just take the DRM Band Aid off and risk legal trouble.