[duxuser] Re: Security issue
- From: "Ryan E. Benson" <rbenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:58:31 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Just to follow up that up, say you worked for a school, or maybe a
handful, and they use all the same books. I as a student get on my
school's homepage, search for textbooks, and your site come up within the
first few hits. Say you either post a .dxp or the straight doc. I just got
a few of my course textbooks for free, assuming it was just a novel.
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Ryan E. Benson
Access Technology Lab Consultant
rbenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 at 14:53, Bray, Terry wrote:
> 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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