Comment by razingeden

non watermarked content can reside on an s3 bucket or http path, referenced by squid as the origin server, which is Icap Aware , and you can run any command on the content;

Antivirus, ffmpeg to watermark a doc … or indeed a third party API..

it’s most commonly used to do antivirus on a transparent proxy and block infected file downloads but you can run any command you want.

Including watermarking everything with a company logo , “confidential “ , or a unique ID of the requestor.

or making subtle alterations to md5sums , metadata etc in confidential documents or for each requestor to track down leaks and sharing.

Nakivo does something kind of like that with product downloads (executables) to manipulate them and require a specific file name to install that goes back to the info you furnished for a demo.

All sorts of use cases for these alterations, I wouldn’t necessarily abandon an idea that’s interesting or challenging to you and id encourage you to spend a little more time on whether youve considered them all and whether they’re marketable

Then if it’s not interesting as a standalone product it might be something you can bake into a paid CMS plugin (Wordpress, Xenforo, etc) for people who are savvy enough to deploy those kinds of products but maybe not go this far with it.

My bread and butter , I guess.. isn’t something mass marketable , but it’s something i enjoy, am wired for, and never really get burned out or bored of.