McAfee Social Protection Locks Down Your Facebook Photos - Polidicks

[img]http://zapp5.staticworld.net/images/article/2012/08/msp20s4-11392868.jpg[/img] [quote] McAfee has announced a new tool for Facebook users called McAfee Social Protection. This Facebook app, which will be available as a free public beta at the end of August, allows users to share protected photos with select friends--and only those select friends. The concept behind the tool is pretty simple: While you can put privacy settings into place to keep strangers from stumbling across your photos on your Facebook page, there's no way to keep your Facebook friends from, well, sharing your photos wherever they want to. For example, if you post an incriminating (take that how you will) photo on Facebook and one of your friends teasingly shares it on their wall, then other people could see it. Likewise, if your friend downloads that photo and their computer or email account is hacked, your photo could fall into the wrong hands. McAfee Social Protection seeks to solve this problem by giving Facebook users a secure platform through which they can upload and share photos without having to worry about people downloading them, copying them, or otherwise sharing them with others. McAfee demonstrated the new app at its Santa Clara office Thursday afternoon. After a quick download and installation of a special photo viewer, users are able to upload, share, and view photos on the secure platform. Photos are encrypted so they cannot be copied, printed, or have screenshots taken of them, and only the friends you invite to see them are able to see them--all others see blurry renditions of your photos. The photos are not hosted on Facebook's servers, but on a secured Intel server. Basically, this app helps ensure that your photos don't fall into the wrong hands, even inadvertently. Since your friends cannot save or download your photos, even if their accounts or devices are compromised, your photos are safe. That said, it's not foolproof--obviously, if someone was really out to get that photo, there are workarounds (for example, you could just take a physical picture with a separate camera of the screen). But the app does present a stumbling block to the easy, one-click sharing that can sometimes make compromising photos go viral. While the Social Protection app won't be able to stop truly malicious people from stealing your photos, it is a step in the right direction when it comes to helping people get a handle on their personal data. Not only will people be able to know exactly who is seeing their photos, but they'll also be able to pull compromising photos from the Web without having to really worry about whether those photos have been copied and pasted elsewhere. Of course, in order for Social Protection to work, people actually have to use it. It's not quite as simple as uploading photos directly to Facebook--and McAfee hasn't mentioned whether there will be a mobile component to the app--but the extra step might just be worth the extra protection.[/quote] [url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/260286/mcafee_social_protection_locks_down_your_facebook_photos.html[/url]

how the hell does this stop you from print-screening I can think of like 5 workarounds just off the top of my head

It puts a giant lock over it obviously

The thing with this, though, is that it would only help people who are already concerned enough about their privacy. What I'm saying is that I don't see someone who posts a picture of themselves on Facebook drinking or smoking a blunt or something illegal actually using this, because someone who would use this (probably kind of smart, concerned about their privacy, not a dipshit, etc.) doesn't really need it in the first place.

I think an easier solution would be not to upload any incriminating photos to facebook but whatever that's just me.

[QUOTE=markg06;37152387]I think an easier solution would be not to upload any incriminating photos to facebook but whatever that's just me.[/QUOTE] Ding ding ding! Mark won the thread!

can't you disable it with a script blocker or something

This sounds incredibly easy to bypass.

Just retarded

Why? Sounds incredibly dumb.

[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;37152307]how the hell does this stop you from print-screening I can think of like 5 workarounds just off the top of my head[/QUOTE] Ever tried to screenshot a video playing with Overlay Mixer and aero off? It does some absolutely crazy things, like the black area on the screenshot actually behaving like a 'window' (in the literal sense) But yeah with Aero I'm pretty sure it is impossible to prevent [i]easily[/i] making screenshots. Non-aero and things need to get a little more hacky

Something like noscript can probably bypass this.

What most of you fail to realize (because you didn't read the article) is that you have to install a special photo viewer thing that runs in the background to display the pictures. So just having noscript doesn't work because it's not entirely browser based. However, unless it's like actively overwriting the clipboard if you take a screenshot (which would be annoying as hell and pretty easy to bypass) I don't see how it prevents it.

Save all of your Facebook masturbation material QUICK

Cant you just use the snipping tool that comes with windows or puush

I remember I was searching for images for a history project and I found some pictures on a pretty shitty site that couldn't be copied at first because hovering the mouse over them changed the image so it was blurred. I just right clicked "inspect element" (having accidently pressed it a few times before and known it brings up technical shit) and saw the script that changed it in the web formatting box that came up. I copied the URL of the original image in the script and laughed. And I am fucking [i]terrible[/i] at computers.

Fuck print screen. Use the snipping Tool. No possible way to block that.

[quote]Photos are encrypted so they cannot be copied, printed, [B]or have screenshots taken of them[/B], and only the friends you invite to see them are able to see them. [/quote]

[QUOTE=soccerskyman;37153686][/QUOTE] With printscreen maybe, I doubt that it can bypass something that captures a single area of your screen.

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;37153866]With printscreen maybe, I doubt that it can bypass something that captures a single area of your screen.[/QUOTE] Because they don't work the same way as regular printscreens except only affect a smaller area?

how about capturing video of the screen, then taking a still and slicing the image out? [editline]9th August 2012[/editline] but in all seriousness, some browsers have the ability to show what is downloaded on screen.

[QUOTE=Fear_Fox;37153923]Because they don't work the same way as regular printscreens except only affect a smaller area?[/QUOTE] They work the same, but I think just capturing one small section throws the whole thing off. And if that doesn't work, you can still read the cache of your browser. Chrome even shows you the elements, resources and etc currently on the page(press F12).

[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;37153953]They work the same, but I think just capturing one small section throws the whole thing off. And if that doesn't work, you can still read the cache of your browser. Chrome even shows you the elements, resources and etc currently on the page(press F12).[/QUOTE] No. Read the article. The image isn't displayed fully by the browser. It requires you to download an external photo viewing client to see the pictures.

[QUOTE=Fear_Fox;37154031]No. Read the article. The image isn't displayed fully by the browser. It requires you to download an external photo viewing client to see the pictures.[/QUOTE] Well that's just one more bullshit 'app' that im not using on facebook.

There's also the analog hole. If they really managed to block every possible way of saving the picture to your PC, any person who was determined enough to save the picture could simply take a photo of their screen. As such, there will never be a way to completely protect photos online.

This reminds me of those kids you see on games that self-censor. FU*K YOU BITH! There's just no point...

just like the Music industry wanting to control what people listen to. Except 30 years ago you could get a cassette and hit record and then they'd get very mad. :v:

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about:Cache

Let's assume for a moment that any of the 'usual' methods don't work: Pictures aren't displayed in the browser, so no cache or javascript manipulation and Printscrn and such are blocked (somehow). They're still forgetting one thing: Virtual Machines. All I've got to do is fire up Windows XP Mode, open it in that, then screenshot it with the 'real' computer. This is completely worthless!