David, This is a serious question and needs serious discussion. I will give a more considered view later. A few quick points.
- If someone can see it they can steal it - If they steal it I think the main issues are - Will they pretend to be you - or pretend to be the author - Try and spoof your site to trap visitors who trust you - However you hide buttons etc... someone with tiddlywiki skills will find it easier to steal than others - In fact they just need a link to your wiki and right-click download and the get the whole wiki. - There is plenty you can do to make it less than straightforward for people to realise its theft is easy - But I think you would be better on focusing on the value to your audience (personal view) - It is quite easy to leave your mark through out the wiki, making it a chore for someone to hide your authorship - It is possible to tie it into analytics and be able to identify where it is re-published if they do not defeat it - Just like the plugins I recommend you put a licence upfront that spells out people rights to the information on your site, then at least they know what is right or wrong and will hopefully feel a social obligation as a result Opinion - The concept of copyright has a fatal flaw - if someone can read it they have a copy - Security is always a matter of degree, the higher the security the functionality tends to diminish - It we can consider the act of publishing as "setting the information free" but as a reader as it "being granted the right to read only" unless you seek permission to do otherwise, then we would all be a bit more realistic. Regards Tony On Wednesday, September 25, 2019 at 11:24:27 PM UTC+10, David Gifford wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am exploring going back to publishing TiddlyWikis online, rather than > exporting and publishing static htmls from tiddlers. > > One issue I need to confront, though, is the possibility that someone > could download one of my TiddlyWikis, add malicious content (either text > that I would not approve of, or a virus or somesuch), and publish it with > my name on it elsewhere in a way that makes people think it is from me. > > I would like community feedback on what measures I might take to prevent > that: hiding the save/download button when the file is online, etc? Or any > other relevant feedback on this issue. > > Thanks and blessings, Dave > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8e4d84ac-ef5c-4995-a033-5e3350298b1c%40googlegroups.com.