Re: Security (was Re: Style Sheets for HTML)

Rainer Klute <klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>

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Subject: Re: Security (was Re: Style Sheets for HTML) 
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>|>I think the "chunking" idea is still the way to go.  Any useful browser
>|>under the current window systems will let the user copy the information
>|>somehow (even if has to be screen-shot by screen-shot).  Just a basic
>|>fact-of-life/feature/opportunity/bug in computing.
>
>Nope, disabling the copy screen operation will be a requirement to get 
>compliance certification for the security extensions. Without that nobody
>will install the browser at a secure site for access to secure data.

Nope, because you cannot disable e. g. taking a photograph of the screen.
Or you disable displaying the secure data at all. :-(

Best regards
Rainer Klute

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