Re: Storing JPG's as BLOB data type

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with you, Paul...  but, IMHO, this only underscores the 
importance of only letting trusted users view the images.

If the images are placed in the IFS in a publicly accessible directory, 
it's very hard to who views them and when. But if they are in a BLOB, 
and a program verifies their credentials (userid/password, crypto key, 
certificate, whatever...)  then you've limited the exposure to people 
you "trust."

You still have to trust that they won't save the picture to their hard 
drive, or take a photo with their camera -- but it's a lot better than 
making the pics available to the general public.


On 7/8/2011 4:48 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:
> Chris--
>
> No matter what you do, no matter how much you try, if it appears on my monitor I can capture the image and save it and post it anywhere on the web.
>
> You can protect the image so right-clicking won't bring up a "SAVE IMAGE" option, but I have a screen capture utility that lets me draw a box around a region of the monitor and capture it.
>
> Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx