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Originally Posted by Brian

Currently there is an option to protect your gallery/files folder with an .htaccess file which will help prevent users from being able to see images in private categories. We will most likely have an option within the next release or two where you will be able to specify a different location for thumbnails and regular images so that regular ones could be stored in the document root and be called via a PHP file. This will require more CPU usage, but shouldn't cause too much of a performance hit and will keep images even safer.

Thanks