McAfee aims to protect Facebook photos via app
McAfee has begun beta testing its Facebook app "Social Protection". The app is designed to protect users of popular images from unauthorized access - and prevent authorized viewers make screenshots of it. Secure Facebook users share their pictures with McAfee Social Protection, they will be displayed to the public only heavily blurred. Authorized viewer for display must install a plug-in.
The plug-in allows you to view the images, but prevents allegedly storing, printing, downloading and blocks the screenshot function of the operating system. This is to ensure that with friends Shared images are not passed on to third parties. Someone trying to photograph the screen with a camera, a McAfee security devil eats it from the computer and the memory card.
Like a promotional video from McAfee shows to users for uploading can specify not only who gets to see the images, but also define exclusion criteria may like "Hidden from: Gerald Himmelein". Images are uploaded individually or in galleries across the app.
Currently, McAfee Social Protection is still in a closed beta phase. Trying to invoke the Web page of the app provides, from time to time to connection errors. End of the month to the beta will open to all Facebook users. The plug-in will run from Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 8, Chrome, nor is the question as how much the service will ultimately cost.
You have to use the Social Protection App grant the rights to publish contributions on behalf of the user, anytime access to all user data and to read the personal friends lists.
Its approach reminds McAfee Social Protection at the advertised half years ago the program X-Pire. This Firefox plug-in should be based on a decode images stored on the provider's server key. In case of withdrawal of the key can not view the images, the whole thing was at the time under the keyword "digital eraser" and could not be enforced.
Even against success McAfee Social Protection speak various factors. First mobile Facebook clients remain completely left out: Those who want to look at the app-only images with a smartphone will get to see only Pixelbrei. It remains an open question as to how far mobile devices protect uploaded photos via Social Protection. The main problem, however, is the reaction per se: App users have to move all Facebook friends to install the display plug-ins - at a time when the browser add-ons are the most common entry point for malware that.
Ultimately, before the unwanted spread of potentially embarrassing photos helps one thing: Not only put online, not even for friends.
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