A method for the display of an image in a display area, the method comprising: requesting, from a server, a scrambled image file using an image identifier, the scrambled image file containing the image in a scrambled form; receiving the scrambled image file; dividing the scrambled image file into a plurality of image fragments, the image fragments having a first order within the scrambled image file; and rendering the image fragments on to the display area in a second order derived from the image identifier to display the image in unscrambled form.