[LINK] Disable clipboard for password input

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Mon Jun 30 13:01:42 AEST 2014


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Rick Welykochy <rick at vitendo.ca> wrote:

> A comment on the plug-in page mentioned security and privacy issues being
> addressed
> by this plug-in. Now that I think about it, I suppose anything on your
> clipboard could
> be surreptitiously copied to rogue websites. Not a pleasant thought. Do
> you know what
> is in your clipboard right now?
>

None of the major browsers allow websites (including Javascript/etc) to
access the contents of the clipboard.

Flash used to be able to do it, but I'm fairly sure that was removed
several versions ago.

  Scott



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