[duxuser] Re: Security issue
- From: "Bray, Terry" <Terry.Bray@xxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:53:30 -0500
Dan:
All that is true however most of us are quite willing to beg borrow or
steel to get access to information it doesn't have anything to do with
being dishonest but rather access. According to the Canadian National
Institute for the blind only 3% of all printed materials are available
to those with out site.
Having said that anyone who produces any kind of material Braille or not
does deserve to benefit from there labour and secured zipped files and
sights are only useful until someone who doesn't care about who did what
because once he has that Brf file or anything else for that matter he
can post it on the internet and it is no longer secure. My final point
is this all major programs have the ability to produce secure password
protected documents Word, Excel and PDF just to name a few so why
shouldn't Braille.
-----Original Message-----
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Dan Comden
Sent: April 1, 2005 2:36 PM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Security issue
Rather than have Duxbury be responsible for securing documents, I think
it
should be up to the creator/editor to do so. This issue is important to
all creators of alternative text, not just Duxbury aficionados.
There are a variety of encryption/security techniques that could be
used.
One person suggested encrypted .zip -- that's one option. Another would
be
to secure the web directory where the online versions are being made
available for download. A variety of techniques could be used to do
this,
depending on the type of web server used. We've used .htaccess for
Apache
web servers in the past, and that does a decent job at limiting access
to
certain directories and files.
The problem of securing copyrighted information is a responsibility both
for producers of alt text and the consumer. Producers shouldn't be
making
copyrighted information available "in the clear" and users shouldn't be
illegally distributing the files they receive.
-*- Dan Comden danc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Access Technology Lab
http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
University of Washington
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