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Show HN: A cross platform app for mirroring the clipboard between synced devices
- batrat 8y agoThank you. It's useful when I have multiple virtual machines open in my PC and something this simple is really nice.
- ronreiter 8y agoNice. This is the best example I give for why Macs are great. Because they think about these things. This is a built in functionality in the Apple ecosystem.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoFWIW this is in KDE (via kdeconnect) too; I have it turned off. The only use case I personally have is copying passwords. In what way do you use it?
- binbag 8y agoAlso a feature of Windows 10 afaik. Possibly only an insider preview update.
- kitsunesoba 8y agoOn my Macs + iPhone the biggest use by far is for TOTP 2FA codes. Open app on iPhone, tap the right code, paste in field on Mac.
- ronreiter 8y agoUsually copy pasting links/messages/images between desktop and mobile.
- krick 8y agoThe difference is, speaking of Apple it's iPhone/iPad + Mac, which is super-useful, I don't even know how can you ask for a use-case, since everything is a use-case: copy anything from your phone to a computer, be it a text, an url, phone number, quote from a book/article you were reading. And speaking of KDE, it's just one KDE PC + another KDE PC, which is basically useless, since it's a rare person nowadays to be walking around with a KDE PC in his pocket. So, yeah, I kinda hate Apple (I like my stuff configurable), but I wonder more and more how long is it until I drop other devices/OS', and buy an iPhone + MacBook.
- HaHa31 8y agoKDE connect has an Android app that does this and most of the other stuff I assume Apple enables; I don't use Apple products, because I use Arch and Android.
- Jim_Heckler 8y agoYep, KDE Connect is fantastic. I was really thrilled when after installing the mpris extension for Mopidy, I was able to see the current track playing, including album art, and pause/play with zero latency. That's just the icing on the cake of notification and clipboard mirroring.
- andmarios 8y agoNo difference, it's KDE + android. Not only it has bidirectional clipboard syncing (so copy a 2FA token from the mobile to the PC) but also other nice features. Like if your phone is ringing, your PC will pause automatically YouTube or play music / spotify tabs on chrome. You can control PC media (e.g. again play music on chrome) from your phone, sync notifications uni or bidirectional, share/browse files, use the phone as a trackpad or keyboard for the PC, answer messages from the PC, etc.
- krick 8y agoWow, that was a stupid mistake on my part. I don't know why I was convinced it doesn't work with Android. It is indeed really awesome.
- emilsedgh 8y agoAnd speaking of KDE, it's just one KDE PC + another KDE PC, which is basically useless, since it's a rare person nowadays to be walking around with a KDE PC in his pocket. Nah. It's any Linux computer [0] <-> Android [1]. [0] KDE Connect works on Gnome as well. [1] It can connect to any Android device as it has an Android app. And as other's have commented, it has many more features than just the clipboard. I'm using an iphone now and the biggest thing I miss from Android is KDE Connect which is not available on iOS.
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- RaleyField 8y agoHow does you application prevent MitM attacks?
- asmosoinio 8y agoDoes not look like it even tries: "The features missing to make it to a secure and stable version are:" ... "The JSON RPC server should be serving HTTPS instead HTTP."
- gruez 8y agogreat, so it's an app that broadcasts your clipboard contents to all bad guys on your network.
- bumholio 8y agoClipboard contents is a very sensitive data stream. People copy and paste all sorts of passwords, credit card data, command lines, confidential text etc. I once found the domain password of a coworker in the clipboard, simply because we were sharing a VNC session; so when I pasted the text data I immediately recognized it as a password. If this can happen accidentally, I think logging this data stream on the long run is equivalent to full compromise and can spread malware or worse in the internal network. An easy active attack I could envision is to listen on the remote clipboard for something that looks like a long Unix or Windows command line, which the remote user lifted from a tutorial or some such. Malware would immediately trigger a sync event to modify the remote clipboard and insert a loader for itself, obfuscated somewhere within that command line. So from the time you copy to the time you paste and press enter, the machine is rooted, unless you carefully review that command line before execution.
- nodesocket 8y agoAgree, the clipboard contains a treasure trove of sensitive information.
- anfilt 8y agoSounds like a security issue waiting to happening.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoEvery interesting thing you can do with computers is a security issue waiting to happen. The only secure computer is one that's disconnected from Internet, turned off, encased in concrete and buried in an abandoned mine, which is then flooded and sealed with more concrete. Point being, while this particular implementation needs a lot more work, the concept itself is sound.
- xmmrm 8y agoSee also: https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik https://github.com/jedisct1/piknik
- philliphaydon 8y agoDid this need to be an electron app??
- LeoPanthera 8y agoIt says right on the github page: "Electron could be switched by native APIs since it's overkill for such a small program." Perhaps read before snarking.
- philliphaydon 8y agoI wasn't 'snarking' I asked a question, for what it's worth I was reading this on my Phone and didn't read the entire thing because it took too long to load for me.
- coinmonks 8y agoWana write a blog post about the this?
- tiagovtristao 8y agoI can if you are interested :-) What main points would you like to see covered?
- krisgenre 8y agoThese things keep coming now and then on HN. I built one myself[1] long time back and this makes me wonder if there is actually a market for clipboard mirroring. [1] https://github.com/krishnaraj/oneclipboard https://github.com/krishnaraj/oneclipboard
- nudiustertian 8y agoPushbullet seems to be doing alright
- Jyaif 8y agoEncryption should be part of the MVP.
- anotheryou 8y agoanything lightweight that pastes only on demand via a shortcut? i don't feel good about syncing everything