Adobe Portfolio password protection

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Hi, since Portfolio doesn't have a dedicated board anymore, I'll post this question here.

I have set a sitewide password on the portfolio site. Everything works fine, but I see that the assets are still publicly available, if you have the unique url. (ie: https://pro2-bar-s3-cdn-cf6.myportfolio.com/abdfa********************aecc71/0af************************.jpg?h=3a39**************************58 where *s are alphanumeric characters). The url for each image can be found in web development tabs in chrome or Firefox.
Given it seems that the assets are not encrypted, are they safe from crawlers of any kind and search engine indexers? I don't want them to show up anywhere else on the web, and not being collected automatically by any other service.

Nancy OShea · Accepted Answer

That's exactly what i'm asking here, do Adobe storage servers have a public facing feature to get a list of all files? Or as you put it - are they unwise enough to have it? And how can I know? As you saw, clicking on that link brought you nowhere, but it was just the url for one of my assets, truncated to exclude the file name.
So that server won't let the user list, but is this valid for all network actors?
You said bots can only do what users do, so I think i'm golden. Files on those storage server should be secure, at least as common cloud storage files such as ones on dropbox or gdrive.

To be honest, I'm not sure what you're trying to protect. Adobe stores assets on Content Distribution Networks just like 75% of worldwide websites do. Since your site is password protected, your assets are safe as long as your site URLs & password are never released in the wild. Simple as that.

Nancy OShea · Answer

The Internet is all about sharing information. Assets stored on a public facing website are accessible to everyone including search engines, robots and humans. Don't publish anything online that you don't want to share with the world.

That said, Adobe Portfolio supports password protection of your entire site or single pages. But everyone with the password also has access to the assets because that's how the web works.

If you think disabling right-click will protect your digital property, think again. It's absolutely meaningless. The best you can do to prove ownership is digital watermarking or barcoding. See the Digimarc plug-in for Photoshop CC below.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/digimarc-copyright-protection.html

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