War on right clickers, tides have turned!
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@Control_Alt_Kaboom said:
@kirchhoff said:
It might be possible to do. He could spend billions of dollars building (or stealing) a farm of equipment that, if he's lucky, could break the encryption. He'd probably have an issue with his power company.
Or, he could write a distributed processing app to do the same thing, and put it on the web. If it's like the SETI@Home thing, then plenty of people would install it to burn up their excess processing power. You just have to lie to them about what it's actually computing.
So, no worries about the electricity bills (apart from the server where the clients 'call home' or whatever it is they do) and if he's clever enough, no worries about getting caught.(almost)
I mean, it'll probably take just as long (if not longer), but it's more interesting. Until the clients find out what you are actually using their spare CPU time for.
What? But SETI@Home is already such a scheme - I thought everyone knew that! [/tinfoilhat]
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wget -r
Btw, what is the problem with SETI@Home?
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@Lingerance said:
wget -r
Btw, what is the problem with SETI@Home?None I know of. However, I've seen people spouting harebrained theories about how it only shows a pretty animation of a Fourier transformation, while in the background it secretly brute-forces encrypted messages for the NSA. That was a very amusing idea. :)
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@Arancaytar said:
@Lingerance said:
wget -r
Btw, what is the problem with SETI@Home?None I know of. However, I've seen people spouting harebrained theories about how it only shows a pretty animation of a Fourier transformation, while in the background it secretly brute-forces encrypted messages for the NSA. That was a very amusing idea. :)
So if I happen to be the one with the right key, I get top secret government information for nothing? Sweet! I'll have to keep my sniffer running next time I start it...
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@robbak said:
Gah!! Are there any brains left on this planet??
(Yes: they are all here)
News flash for ya: If your image is on a public web server, then your picture is public property. End of story.
I think a much better and more hilarious solution would be this:
1) Embed java applet web browser into page
2) Pass parameter as POST request which says which page to load
3) Applet parses parameter and then fetches the page
The beauty is that this even obscures the site's file layout, making it even harder to copy!
Actually, the scary thing is that somebody is probably already doing this.
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here is where the site originates from. i like how it defaults to network-abuse.
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@savar said:
I think a much better and more hilarious solution would be this:
Solution?
Noitulos, no doubt!
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btw, yo can still drag'n'drop images from Internet explorer to location of your choice (another browser window / open directory).
just my 2 cents.
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yo brother, I feel ya and keep on codin'
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Actually, the most effective image protection (and by effective, I mean annoying) was on a contest site for a program called Universe Image Creator (generates star-fields, galaxies etc.). It was based on a simple right-click blocking scheme. Why didn't NoScript or View Source work? Because the entire site was served with some wtfy AJAX page-building framework, similar to Gmail (only it didn't degrade without Javascript).
Now, I don't normally feel that bad a need to copy images, but this was a [i]challenge[/i]! And I had to spend a few minutes figuring out how to solve it - thought the image URLs might be in the JS, but it was too scrambled - and then I just saved the images from the Media tab in the Page Info window. I didn't spend weeks on solving NotPron for nothing!
