Re: [Sks-devel] Displaying user images on index page

[David Shaw]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Thomas Sjögren wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:50:36AM -0500, Yaron Minsky wrote:
> > I'm less worried about illegal images than I am about inappropriate ones. 
> > As for copyright violations, I think that's not likely to be an issue with
> > small thumbnailed images.
> > 
> > Still, there are many potential abuses.  I'm still quite leery of this
> > feature.
> 
> Well, if ppl start using keyservers to distribute illegal images (i can
> personally think of worse things to distribute with the use of GPG/PGP), the 
> majority of people using images is NOT doing this to screw with the system. 
> Dont let a minority keep nice features out of the server.

Many systems are abusable in one way or another.  In this particular
case, though, it's a very easy abuse, and we don't currently have a
good way to stop the abuse if/when it starts.

I'm not against the feature itself, but it would be good to at least
think about various ways to halt such abuse if it does start.  One
such solution is to make JPEG display an optional feature, that could
be disabled by the keyserver admin.

David