![]() I’m both amused and greatly dissappointed by all the instant armchair security experts commenting on this. But more than a quater of a century ago that was not the way money was made in Silicon Valley and Seattle. I actualy felt for the guy, he was an amiable person and what he was trying to do should have been not just possible but simple. I once had a less than fun time explaining to a university lecturer that whilst the desktop publishing program had a licence to display certain fonts the printer did not have a licence for the font in question nor did the word processor, therefore the best I could do was get the desktop publishing program to output an image file that could then be included “as is” into other applications. The whole thing is just an entite mess that users generaly do not get to see except for when they don’t get what they want, which often boils down to the equivalent of a cut and cropped image not “text”. Which brings in the issues of multibyte characters and backwards and forwards compatability. ![]() Ideally the same for cameras and microphones, though I guess in practical terms it has to be some sort of prompt for confirmation and obvious visual indication that they’re on, rather than a complete block.īut text it’s self is a problem because it frequently has attributes that people want to keep after transferring it such as “bold”, “italicized”, and a whole lot more.īut even if they don’t the question of “fonts” and “extended characters” for the likes of Internationalization occurs. What about a “clipboard viewer” app, you might ask? Well, under either of these safer models, that would have to be an OS-provided feature. No other access to the clipboard for apps. To support that case, you restrict access to the clipboard such that, when a user interacts with the paste function of the OS, the focused app gets notified that an incoming paste is ready, and then it’s given the ability to read the paste, but only that one app, and only that one paste, and only that one time. But I could see that being different for some others. I guess that would only support text clipboards, not images. No direct access to the clipboard for apps. What should happen is that copy/paste should be an OS-provided service that apps have no access to… all the apps see is a stream of characters coming in on paste that look exactly the same as if the user had literally typed them out. ![]() It’s doubtful that it’ll be ever removed and controlled to the level to remove risk to privacy and/or security.Ĭopy and paste between different apps is the majority of my personal usage of the feature, both on desktop and mobile. The copy/paste is a useful function in any OSes. Copying text to overwrite the password is not necessary, but certainly doesn’t hurt. It does the same, if and when the program is closed. In addition, Ctrl+Delete deletes the copied password from the clipboard. His program locks after 5 minutes or so inactivity and wipes the copied password from the clipboard. I’ve been using Bruce’s excellent Password Safe. Without enabling clipboard history, there’s only the last clipboard entry available. Unless, the administrator of the systems disabled clipboard history in the registry, which he/she should. For the ignorant masses, enabling it is just a simple click in settings. ![]() Not to downplay the risk of security and privacy implications of the clipboard history, but…īy default, the clipboard history is disabled in Windows 10. Unfortunately, the trends towards convenience still seem to be winning and now you can even sync your clipboards between devices as well – what kind of usage workflow would this be supporting I have now idea ? This will cover the majority of scenarios where you need to paste some text you just copied from, say, a pdf file into, say, an email as a quote that might be too long to type in manually. don’t allow apps to read content of the clipboard populated from a different app apart from the last clipboard entry (and also only when initiated by the user via UI – point 1.) Restrict clipboard history to the same app – i.e.Only allow reading from clipboard (copying, cutting) and writing to clipboard (pasting) when user initiates the action.One way for an OS to implement a decent compromise between security and convenience here is by Why, o why, should the apps be allowed to access clipboard content without user interaction – what possible valid scenario would allow for hijacking of this functionality?
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