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People make mistakes. Why not put a simple control in that doesn't get in the way of any legitimate use?


The mistake being, what, accidentally sneezing onto the printscreen button so hard it depresses?

This isn't the same as leaving a tool in someone; making and misplacing a screencap take active doing. If your meeting participants actively want to put data where it doesn't belong, the solution isn't accident prevention


The mistake being to intentionally take a copy of something confidential, because you forgot it was supposed to be confidential. People do things like this all the time.

It's essentially a guardrail. It can be easily circumvented if someone was being actively malicious.




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