[BNM] Creating a Flickr spaceball.gif effect

Steve Esson stevee at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 10:04:35 GMT 2008


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org [mailto:bnmlist-
> If you wanted to make it even harder, you could encrypt the URL and
> pass it to client javascript code which decrypts it and sets the div's
> background on load. The hacker would have to then pull out your
> decrypt function to get the URL then...

Err, no he wouldn't. The image is already on your machine, in the cache.
Which means there's about a gazillion ways to view and save that image
depending on your browser.




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