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Re: Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See

marie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:25:38 -0000

how do you do bypass the security?

Re: Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See

Enrico — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:35:00 -0000

Just subscribed to smugmug, noticed the same problem and looking through the net for a solution.
I guess it is quite easy to solve: create galleries that are accessible just by the owner when he's logged in.

Smugmug is offered even as photo archive and I NEED to archive pictures that I don't want anyone to see, ever.
It's just that easy. What better privacy access than my private login to ensure that this galleries are safe?

Re: Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See

mikeren — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:00:45 -0000

Forget photographic security with smugmug.Anyone can bypass their weak security and ive had it shown to me.

Re: Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See

Andy Williams — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:43:40 -0000

Hi, I'm from SmugMug. You had stated "Have a look at these URL’s (these are private photos):" and "when I typed in http://www.smugmug.com/gall... into my browser, i was looking at a collection of photos that were perhaps not meant for people like you and me to have a peak at. Ofcourse Smugmug has other features like password protection, but I’m sure that most users would take password protection as an added trouble in making photos private. They probably think that by marking them as private, no one else except them could see it. But things don’t work that way at Smugmug."

I just wanted to point out that this is a public gallery, accessible to anyone who searches or visits SmugMug, or who finds it via Google or other search tool.

SmugMug customers have lots of security and privacy options.
1. Total lockdown: site password, private and password protected galleries, and locking down the galleries from any indexing by search engines.

2. Middle ground: I have no fence around my home, you can see my yard, through open windows if I have left the drapes open. I can also have a secret shed around back, with a lock on it. This would be a SmugMug customer who has a homepage accessible to the public, and some galleries open (public) and some galleries behind a curtain (private) and some out back in shed (locked!). An example would be my site http://www.moonriverphotogr... You see a few galleries when you click on my galleries tab, but in fact I have hundreds. Some private, some locked :) Client photos of mine that I do not want anyone to see, ever, but the client, are in a locked gallery, not indexed by Google, and the gallery doesn't allow any external links.

3. Doors and windows open: The site is totally open. Go and see anything you like. But even here, customers can choose to have say, individual photos hidden within a gallery, can have sizes blocked (like originals maybe) or have external links on or off, their choice.

Our customers can mix and match these various security and privacy options. We think having a choice is good.

Our help pages explain it really well,
http://www.smugmug.com/help...
http://www.smugmug.com/help...
http://www.smugmug.com/help...

and anyone who wishes to contact us and talk about it, shoot an email to us:
http://www.smugmug.com/help...

All the best,

- Andy

Re: Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See

Martin — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:35:00 -0000

You actually do not need a bot to download all pictures, just a Firefox extension called Batch Download. I've written an article explaining the process.

http://www.ghacks.net/2008/...

Re: Smugmug Private Photos are for Anyone to See

ub00t — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:47:47 -0000

did the same, was entering same site as mentioned above, nothing wrong, could buy pictures of a party, if I´d like....

Whats wrong bout that?