private gallery question

JimW

Yesterday I was reading a thread (which I can't find now) where someone said the following:

Even if you make a gallery private so that bad guys can't access it, if you post a photo from that gallery in a forum (like dgrin), then you're giving people a back door to get into that private gallery and steal your images.

Is this correct?


Thanks, just trying to learn about this issue.

Andy

JimW wrote:

Yesterday I was reading a thread (which I can't find now) where someone said the following:

Even if you make a gallery private so that bad guys can't access it, if you post a photo from that gallery in a forum (like dgrin), then you're giving people a back door to get into that private gallery and steal your images.

Is this correct?


Thanks, just trying to learn about this issue.

That's not true.

If you have a gallery:

http://nickname.smugmug.com/gallery/XXXXXXX and it is private, it will NOT appear on your homepage. People need the url to go to it.

If you post a photo from that gallery,
http://nickname.smugmug.com/photos/XXXXXXX-L.jpg

they'll have a link to that photo but not the gallery. Steal it? If you've embedded it in a forum or blog, it's out there and not protected anyhow.

Block Originals, and nobody can access them
Put a password on the gallery, don't allow external links (embedding in forum posts, blogs, etc) if you want total protection.

More here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/private-albums

Holler with more questions, we'll be here.