[LINK] Disable clipboard for password input

[Kim Holburn]

To be very cynical: It means that keyloggers can nab your password, so I guess it depends on the motivations of the website owners.

On 2014/Jun/30, at 2:28 PM, Paul Bolger wrote:

> So does disabling pasting into the password field provide any benefit
> for the site owner, besides annoying the users?
> 
> 
> 
> On 30 June 2014 15:01, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:
>> 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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