I've not done this with a raspberry pi but if the device is networked what
about using the a remote x session. The slide images reside on an
application server in a secure location even if the whole device is removed
there is nothing on it. I did something very similar years back with
diskless clients and a terminal server.

Cheers
Alan
On 2013-09-28 4:11 PM, "Jer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 13-09-28 02:40 PM, Henry Olders wrote:
>
>> Hello, all,
>>
>> I want to run my raspi as a device for digital signage, the idea being to
>> display images fullscreen in a slideshow, without any user intervention.
>> I've got that running very well, using the raspbian distro, openbox window
>> manager, and either qiv or feh as the image viewer. The slideshow starts
>> automatically on boot, and runs forever, which is what I want.
>>
>> Here is the problem: my client wants to prevent his images from being
>> copied, including being copied off of the SD card when physically removed
>> from the raspi. Encryption would accomplish this, so I'm looking at getting
>> truecrypt running on the raspi.
>>
>> The difficulty I foresee is that if someone plugs a keyboard and mouse
>> into the raspi when it's running, they can access a terminal emulator which
>> is already logged in as user pi, and (I think) copy the image files out of
>> the truecrypt container into an unencrypted directory.
>>
>> There may also be other security issues that people with more experience
>> know about.
>>
>> Any ideas or suggestions much appreciated!
>>
>> Henry
>>
>>
> Use FBI instead which can run without anyone logged in. I use it for
> slideshows on the pi. You can also use the video player, I forget the name,
> but it is optimized for the pi. You don't need X at all, the framebuffer is
> all you need.
>
> Another option is to use a screen locker program that will show the
> slideshow. ie: Xscreensaver and use the GLSlideshow option.
>
> You could set permissions on the files so they are owned by root (or
> another user) and only readable by root/user, then run the slideshow
> program with sudo.
>
> The problem with encrypting the files is that if a reboot happens someone
> has to go type a password in.
>
> The client is aware that they are displaying the images on a screen and
> that anyone could record that screen? This is how I would steal them :)
>
> Jeremy
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