There are a lot of means of “protecting” your photos, text, or site itself that can leave you vulnerable, thanks to the fact that anyone can click “View => Source” in just about any browser. Now if your security measures include javascript, commonly used to disable the right click menu—among other things—the surfer can still look at your source code to see what you’re hiding. Some people will be made more curious by the fact that you’re obviously hiding something, even though they might have right-clicked on a photo just to see who your image host is.
Also, keep in mind that javascript only works when it is turned on. Most scripts have no effect when the user turns off javascript, as many users do.
Anyway, anyone who wants your phots badly enough can always take a screenshot of your page to snag your images.
It’s best to prominently watermark all photos of any size, so at least if anybody saves them, your character name, website, contact info, etc, will always be with the photos.
Here’s a little tale of a website which had a javascript login protecting its membership area. It was a simple issue for someone with even half an idea of how javascript works to look at the code and figure out how to get in. Having a security method which is useless like that is worse than having none. Clearly they put things in the private area thinking they were secure, rather than completely accessible to anybody curious enough to look.
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