Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Russ Allbery dijo [Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:14:21PM -0700]: > > > The reasons not to want a document printed are quite easy to > understand, but the mechanism is flawed. / > Given the setting you > mention, you can just slap a red banner stating "Confidential, do not > print". If it is on a corporate setting, just state it as a policy - > and if somebody fails to comply with the policy, there should be > sanctions. > That is not for an enterprise stuff (at least if you do not consider the universities as enterprises), but I slapped such a banner (here, this is only a simple watermark). But there are also different ways to remove a watermark... > Of course, somebody interested in printing the file will do it. Either > by his own means or, like my users, by mailing the "techie" the > document asking him to unprotect it. Or by sticking it on a USB key > and taking it off-site to a location they can freely tinker with. > Sure. But one hopes the measures to be deterrent! That is one of the only thing we can rely on with a given amount of certitude. > As I said on my previous mail: If you don't want it to be printed, > distribute in a way that makes it hard to be useful when > printed. Sure, but how? (For the next time, if any.) They need(ed) to read it, and it must be sufficiently `high-res.' > Don't you trust somebody with social security numbers and > salary information? Don't give it to them. > No choice. I am not the supervisor of the course. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me.
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