RE: unauthorized PDF distribution

[bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com]

Never put anything on the net that you cannot afford to have copied and passed around.  No matter how many protection schemes you slap on it, somebody will figure out a way to copy it if they want to.  You'll only give yourself a false sense of security.

Shoot, I saw two guys take a digital photograph of a monitor screen to get around the protection scheme of the site that posted the first Area 51 satellite pictures.


-----Original Message-----
From: bryan johnson [mailto:bryan -dot- johnson -at- motoman -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 2:12 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: unauthorized PDF distribution


I would like to prevent a document on our intranet from being saved to the users hard drive and potentially e-mailed to a customer. I know Acrobat can prevent printing, editing, copy/paste, and can be password protected. However, is there anyway to prevent a documents unauthorized distribution?


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