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I'm honestly impressed that they thought so in depth about these things. That said, I'm of the opinion that a clipboard manager should be a standard part of an

I'm honestly impressed that they thought so in depth about these things. That said, I'm of the opinion that a clipboard manager should be a standard part of an OS and would arguably solve this problem.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
This wouldn't have been considered a problem in the 90s, but my concern with clipboard managers is that they would end up containing a lot of sensitive information, particularly passwords from my password manager. (Not that this isn't a concern otherwise, but there's a difference between a pasteboard that holds one piece of information at a time and immediately purges old information, and one that logs history for an extended period.)
- zamadatix 7y ago
  Clipboard managers, such as the one that ships with Windows 10, allow applications such as password managers to mark something to not be stored in the clipboard history. KeePass supports this functionality as an example. Really though autotype is the safer option.
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    Yeah, my concern is that the user won't necessarily be copying from a proper password manager. Passwords are not the only information that people copy and paste: there are credit card numbers, SSN's, drivers license info, etc etc. You could argue the security trade-off is worthwhile, and I might even agree if the clipboard manager isn't enabled by default. A clipboard manager requires you to treat your clipboard in a certain way that I don't think users do in practice.
    - zamadatix 7y ago
      It isn't enabled by default (currently) but there isn't really anything you can do to protect someone who copies important out of a text document and/or leaves open access to their desktop anyways without annoying them so much they work around it in an even worse way. Same thing with browser autofill and password managers.
zamadatix 7y ago
Windows 10 includes one with clipboard history now.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago

This wouldn't have been considered a problem in the 90s, but my concern with clipboard managers is that they would end up containing a lot of sensitive information, particularly passwords from my password manager. (Not that this isn't a concern otherwise, but there's a difference between a pasteboard that holds one piece of information at a time and immediately purges old information, and one that logs history for an extended period.)

zamadatix 7y ago
Clipboard managers, such as the one that ships with Windows 10, allow applications such as password managers to mark something to not be stored in the clipboard history. KeePass supports this functionality as an example. Really though autotype is the safer option.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  Yeah, my concern is that the user won't necessarily be copying from a proper password manager. Passwords are not the only information that people copy and paste: there are credit card numbers, SSN's, drivers license info, etc etc. You could argue the security trade-off is worthwhile, and I might even agree if the clipboard manager isn't enabled by default. A clipboard manager requires you to treat your clipboard in a certain way that I don't think users do in practice.
  - zamadatix 7y ago
    It isn't enabled by default (currently) but there isn't really anything you can do to protect someone who copies important out of a text document and/or leaves open access to their desktop anyways without annoying them so much they work around it in an even worse way. Same thing with browser autofill and password managers.

zamadatix 7y ago

Windows 10 includes one with clipboard history now.