FabSwingers.com forum: Picture security

By *hoksondik OP Man
over a year ago

Broxburn

What is fab doing about picture security ? With the newer high res thumbnails you can easily see the full picture from someone's profile.

Right click and open picture gives you the full profile picture even if it's private !

Even on smart phones open link new tab or hold pic and open image. Takes you to the cloud front hosting site with the full high res image ! Bit of a security flaw ??

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

What would you like Fab to do about picture security?

Personally I'd rather be responsible for my own security, not rely on a site to do it for me.

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By *hoksondik OP Man
over a year ago

Broxburn

What they offer to have private profile pic with a thumbnail and then have no security to stop someone viewing it full res ? Seems a bit strange.

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

I think the general common sense rule is to have nothing you wouldn't want the world seeing on the internet.

High res or not, if someone wants to copy and paste an identifiable profile picture they will.

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By *andS33Couple
over a year ago

Butlins for the weekend

I would suggest if you want to keep one of your pics private maybe just not set it as your profile avatar lol

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By *hoksondik OP Man
over a year ago

Broxburn

the security of the site ? I'm quite aware myself on what I want and don't want to be public. Making aware and asking why fab are not being more responsible. Allowing such things as right click and open image is bad security.

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By *andS33Couple
over a year ago

Butlins for the weekend

Official response under the FAQ section is this

hy don't you right-click protect our photos to stop others stealing / saving them?

We believe in being straighforward with the members of Fab. Right click protect doesn't work and gives a false sense of security by pretending to "protect" images. Other sites may pretend they've protected your images but actually they're being dishonest by claiming that.

Right click "protect" can be gotten around in under 2 seconds by any of the following methods:

Simplest: Goto File menu, Save As, and save to desktop = The photos will be in a folder on your desktop that your browser has created.

OR... Disable JavaScript by going to Tools menu, choose Internet Options, Click the Security tab, click Custom Level, scroll to the "Scripting" section of the list and click Disable. Right click can now be used to save images.

OR... Press print screen and the image + page will be copied to clipboard where it can be pasted into a graphics program for resize or save.

We give you three privacy options on your photos and we now hide images from anyone who isn't a member of Fab. If you are worried about someone stealing your photos you may want to set them to be viewable only by your friends, or private in which case you can send by private mail.

We also now watermark all photos upon upload.

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By *j_markCouple
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over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"I would suggest if you want to keep one of your pics private maybe just not set it as your profile avatar lol

This is good advice. We may at some point use larger or higher resolution profile photos which is why we downsize from a higher resolution photo for this.

Admin x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That you found out you could copy decent pix from thumbnails means you're interested and/or curious to do so?

The three levels of photo storage and use this site gives to subscribers is more than enough to deal with 99% of an account users needs for security . . and for the other 1% make sure you photo-edit your pix to "blur" identifiable features, and that is more likely these days to be a tattoo than a "face shot", and watermark with users-names over or near the "juicy bits" . . thus "spoiling" your pix for the pirates.

Don't use any contact details though or Admin will bin those pix!

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