[thelist] child protection

[Shawn K. Quinn]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Trond Grøntoft wrote:

> Hi
> I suggest you use a Flash-based design for this.

This will break on non-Flash-capable browsers, as well as at sites where
the sysadmin has issued the command "rm libflashplayer.so" in protest.

> You could use an image loader that either loads jpg files from the
> server, or you could even encapsulate each picture inside an swf file.
> With a simple password mechanism you could prevent people from seeing
> anything if they tried to look at the swf file. A system like that would
> not be 100% secure, but it wold be more difficult to hack than an
> HTML-based solution.

It would still be vulnerable to a screen grab.

-- 
Shawn K. Quinn