[1671] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: preventing downloading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (G. Foulds)
Sat Mar 16 18:59:12 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 15:28:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "G. Foulds" <gfoulds@asel.udel.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960315105944.16857k-100000@thebrain.aa.ans.net>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Fri, 15 Mar 1996, Brian W. Spolarich wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, matt jackson wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to create a Web site where users can view documents but
> > they cannot download or print anything without authorization?
> >
...
> (Portable Document Format) support the ability to determine what a user
> can do with a particular document. Regions of text, images, and the
> entire document can be locked to prevent printing or selecting. PDF
> files must be viewed with PDF viewer, and are created with Adobe Acrobat
> Exchange. You can create PDF files from any application, including
> desktop publishing programs, graphics packages, etc.
THat's true... but no amount of creative PDF viewer configuration can
stop me from just running a screen/image grabber, and helping myself
to the information...
-greg
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