Transmitting screen shots for legal records

[David Mandala]

There are lots of places that do not allow Java to be run. They have
proxy servers and firewalls that will not pass Java.

Davidm

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 16:59, George Toft wrote:
> I need your thoughts and opinions on this topic.
> 
> We (Big Corporation I work for) are about to launch a web project to replace a 
> paper form.  The regulations (or practice) in the Company is to image everything 
> that comes in from the members, and to store electronic images of everything
> that 
> goes out to the members.  This gives the Customer Service Reps the ability to 
> recall everything that was ever sent to or received from a member
> instantaneously.
> 
> To replace this paper document that a person must sign once per year and mail 
> in, the Business wants to webify the form, let the member click on the proper 
> boxes, and submit the form.  Since the member had to authenticate to the system 
> to get to the form, we know who "electronically" signed it when they submitted
> it.  
> In keeping with the previous paragraph of imaging everything the member sends
> us, 
> the Business is proposing to capture the members computer screen in a screenshot
> using a java applet, and transmitting that over the Internet to our servers,
> where 
> it will be stored in lieu of the paper form.  "That way, we know exactly what
> the 
> member saw."
> 
> What are your thoughts?
> 
> George
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