You're right, Ed. It's impossible to prevent someone who wants a screenshot from getting one. Someone intent on copying information will do it, even if they have to take a picture of the screen or hand copy the material.
The goal of this project is just to make it harder for the "average" enterprise use from copying information. Thanks, A On 8/7/10, Edward Potter <edwardpot...@gmail.com> wrote: > Impossible. > > I can always get a screen shot, shoot it off to Amazon Turk and have it > 100% transcribed and sent to my email probably in a few minutes. > > There is no way of 100% preventing a screenshot. The core DNA of the > Internet is built on sharing. No way of getting around that. > > You can make it a bit harder but impossible to prevent copying. Just the > nature of the beast. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 7, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Anthony Papillion <papill...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you everyone for your feedback on this problem. In the end, I think >> the most secure way of solving this problem is to output the text to >> Flash. While I know it's fairly easy to download a Flash applet (which >> would, in essence, copy the text, I believe most of the people using this >> system won't know that and will be 'safe enough'. Additionally, if I >> remember correctly, Flash content doesn't show up in a screenshot (though >> I could be wrong on this). >> >> So thank you for the input. It's much appreciated. >> >> >> -- >> Anthony Papillion >> Lead Developer / Owner >> Advanced Data Concepts - "Enabling work anywhere" >> (918) 533-9969 >> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cajuntechie >> My Blog: http://www.cajuntechie.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > -- Sent from my mobile device Anthony Papillion Lead Developer / Owner Advanced Data Concepts - "Enabling work anywhere" (918) 533-9969 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cajuntechie My Blog: http://www.cajuntechie.com _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
