New Image Security Measures Needed

  • bokehen · Member ·

    After joining wordpress, I’ve discovered that anyone can steal my images by using the “Right Click/Copy/Save As” This feature needs to be removed as several sites like 500px, Imatagram and others have now implemented the removal of this “right click” option.

    Although this is merely one aspect of securing ones images, there are hacks which allow others to steal you image without the right click option. Also, this doesn’t stop those who use the “print screen” option to grab your images.

    Thus I’m asking wordpress to create a more secure means of safeguarding ones own images while using them within their post.

  • staartmees · Member ·

    every images you put on a website can and will be copied. There is simply no 100% protection. You can take measures to make it more difficult to copy your images but these can be bypassed with some effort.
    The best way is putting a watermark on your pictures.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Disabling right click does not prevent anything. It just annoys people who realise the site breaking a number of functions their browser is supposed to be able to perform. Disabling right-click on a site can easily be circumvented by a simply browser script or plugin.

    And even if someone is not tech savvy enough to do that, Windows, Mac OS, Android and iOS come with screen shot tools built in that run completely independently of the browser, and that someone can use to copy images from your site. Blocking Print Screen or built in screen shot tools, if it’s even possible to do from a website through a browser, would mean blocking how someone’s computer works on the OS level, and that could be considered hacking their devices/operating systems.

    The simple fact is there is no way at all to prevent content posted on any public websites, not just on WordPress.com, but anywhere, to be copied. The only way to not have your content be copied is to not put it online at all.

    All reputable hosts and service providers have processes in place to help you enforce your intellectual rights and get content removed if it’s used without your permission and in accordance with copyright legislation. But there’s no way to prevent your content being copied if you put it online.

    This is not a lack of security. It’s simply how the internet works.

  • bokehen · Member ·

    Please remove my attached link as I’ve taken the page private.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Done.

  • bokehen · Member ·

    Thank you, Twitter’s WordPress confirmed this action earlier.

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