Security of data

[Randy James]

Well ED thats my question also how do I protect from what you mentioned also? The
only way I have been doing it now is not to let anyone that should not see it on
the site by passwords.

--- Ed McNierney <ed at TOPOZONE.COM> wrote:

> Randy -
> 
> If the information is that sensitive, what's to keep the users from
> doing screen captures and saving the image files, regardless of what you
> do with MapServer?  Unless you have a well-built secure laptop
> environment, anything you put on the screen can go on the disk.
> 
> 	- Ed
> 
> Ed McNierney
> President and Chief Mapmaker
> TopoZone.com / Maps a la carte, Inc.
> 73 Princeton Street, Suite 305
> North Chelmsford, MA  01863
> ed at topozone.com
> (978) 251-4242  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Randy James
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 5:23 PM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Security of data
> 
> I was trying to figgure out how to protect sensitive information. We
> have mapserver set up on our LAN, which does not allow http requests
> from the internet. It protects our data from the internet but now I am
> getting people who want to do reasearch in our office using thier own
> laptop. The problem i am faced with is the c:\windows\temp\*.png files
> that is downloaded by thier internet explorer. How do I make sure they
> are not taken out of our office when they pack their laptop out? Is
> there a way to display the maps and not have these files in the
> windows\temp folder?
> 
> Randy
> 
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