Messages sent and received using most mail clients like
Outlook and Eudora were never designed to be secure. They have
been designed for easy access by all sorts of readers and
include special tracking codes that tie senders, recipients and
their routes together. These tracking codes are utilized by
services to trace messages between targets, and also enable
authorities to identify messages for closer scrutiny.
In this day and age, national security services realize the need
to screen messages for terrorist tip-offs. They may also be
looking for illegal activity and screening all mail for related
vernacular. While such espionage has always been going on,
recently many countries have been passing legislature approving
the use of "net snooping" to cover themselves.
Not only does one have to worry about "big brother" but they
also need to be aware that industrial espionage has never been
easier since everyone has been using the Internet for
communication. Messages sent between email client and server may
be encrypted but they are not secure because the key for
decryption travels with the message. And then on each end of a
chain is a copy of the message that even when deleted still
remains as evidence on the hard drives.
WebMail provides online reading of your mail from a web site similar to the Gmail service. As a web service it can be displayed in a site protected by ASPS which prevents all copy, scraping, data mining, etc. ArtistScope used to provide a solution known as "CopySafe Mail" that was based on the CopySafe Web solution, but since we released the ArtistScope Site Protection System (ASPS) CopySafe Mail became unnecessary because ASPS can be applied to any version of WebMail and run on any type of web server including Windows and Linux.
By using a WebMail
solution with ASPS your messages and inline media can be only be
viewed while they are active, and only while using the
ArtisBrowser.
At the end of a session and/or after deletion, messages cannot
be retrieved from either the server or your computer and there
is no evidence trail, not even in cache.
In fact if both sender and recipient are using the same WebMail
service messages cannot be intercepted by others even by
packet-sniffing because the data sent between the server and the
ArtisBrowser is encrypted. Forums
and message boards can be similarly copy protected.
Any web solution at all can be used. However the easiest to
integrate are those that use templates for header, footer, etc
because the code to add for all pages can be simply added to
those inserts to serve all pages. For the popular CMS like
WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and Moodle,
ArtistScope provides
free add-ons that can be installed as
plugins for
the CMS that greatly simplify the task (no skill necessary).
To add ASPS copy protection to your web pages, once the
ASPS
filter is installed on the server, you only need to add some
meta-tags to the pages that need to be protected. Then those
meta-tags define the protection settings to be applied and lets
the server know that such pages are to be encrypted and visible
only to ArtisBrowser
users. Other web browsers and clients cannot view ASPS pages at
all.
The meta-tags for
ASPS
can be added to page headers manually or dynamically by using
one the CMS
plugins
for Drupal, Joomla, Moodle or WordPress. With these CMS plugins
the site administrator can nominate which pages to protect,
leaving some for normal access and doorway pages. In fact ASPS
can be used in normal web sites and only copy protect the
sections that you nominate in your plugin settings page.
The ArtisBrowser was purposely
designed for privacy and copy protection. As such it is capable
of identifying the user's computer in a way that no other web
browser can. Consequently each user can be identified by their
unique computer signature and that Computer ID can be used to
identify the user beyond username and password requirements.
ASPS
user identification cannot be exploited in any way,
ensuring that only the intended recipient can access and read
the message.
No. Not if the site administrator chooses to invoke the copy
protection options of
ASPS. Copy protection and the ability to
print a message can be defined by the ASPS meta-tags and managed
in the ASPS plugin's settings page.
When copy protection is enabled, the user cannot PrintScreen,
screen capture or save the message content (including media) in
any way.
Copy protection can be beyond the scope of
most web developers but the integration of
ASPS
has been very much simplified. By using a CMS plugin that installs just like any other plugin, site owners
can add and configure ASPS
copy protection for
any page that they nominate by simply nominating a keyword that
can be found in the page's hyperlink. Then the meta-tags to be
applied can be injected dynamically.
There is no other web site protection
solution that can be compared to
ASPS
for its copy protection, access control or data security.