Text 31458, 51 rader
Skriven 2009-04-19 11:06:50 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 31432 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
Ärende: Imageshack
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Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Saturday April 18 2009 at 16:13:

RB>> What leaves your own personal computer is public domain, regardless
RB>> of what anyone promises. Call it paranoia - maybe you're right. But
RB>> better safe than sorry.

RW> And that isn't true either. My son's website now has images on it that
RW> can't be copied. Now. He learned that lesson quick enough.

"Can't be copied"? Lotsa luck.

RW>>> In Facebook, he doesn't worry about it, since only family and
RW>>> friends can see it, unless he opens it to the public.

RB>> Or unless the site is hacked. Lotsa luck.

RW> Not many sites can be hacked these days. Most of them are using Linox
RW> based software and it isn't easy to hack that.

Roy, you'd be surprised at the reports I see. In fact, _most_ servers run on
Linux nowadays and have for quite a number of years. But that's not the point.
You don't have to hack Linux to get at a website, all you have to have to hack
is the website software, which - unfortunately - appears easy enough. I've seen
enough examples in the past years.

RB>> I send (private) images I want others to see to them personally via
RB>> email. Anything else is (or as far as I'm concerned) in the public
RB>> domain and can land anywhere in the next 20 years.

RW> Believe it or not, your 'private' images sent via email are easier to
RW> pirate than my images on Facebook. Mine are uploaded to a secure site,
RW> while yours traverse the internet from server to server, who knows how
RW> many times they're bounced to a pirate site.

Believe what you want, but anything at a website is less secure than as an
email attachment for the simple reason that you are small and unknown, whereas
the site is large and internationally known. Anonymity is your _only_
protection in the Internet.

Frankly, I'd like to encrypt all my emails (there is good public-key encryption
software availble for free), but most (read: 99+%) of the people I write simply
can't deal with even the simplest encryption software. That's a standard
problem in the computer community: YOU may know how to do something, but nobody
you deal with does - or even is aware of the danger.

It's very frustrating.

Cheers, Bob

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