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> Then again, people paste passwords, so. It’s more serious than that, current security best practice is telling everybody to use a password manager. People ar
by bigiain 7y ago
> Then again, people paste passwords, so.
It’s more serious than that, current security best practice is telling everybody to use a password manager. People are being told that pasting passwords is “the right way to do things”. And that behaviour (at least for me) has morphed into keeping account numbers, credit card numbers, and other important private information in the password manager, and copy pasting those when I need to.
(1Password on Mac seems to have a trick where it empties the clipboard after a certain amount of time, I’ve noticed that occasionally when a password I’d copied a little while ago isn’t still in the clipboard when I try to paste it. I haven’t been quite curious enough to look into it. Yet...)
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- Marsymars 7y ago> 1Password on Mac seems to have a trick where it empties the clipboard after a certain amount of time, I’ve noticed that occasionally when a password I’d copied a little while ago isn’t still in the clipboard when I try to paste it. I haven’t been quite curious enough to look into it. Yet... I think this is pretty standard. KeePass makes it immediately obvious as it has a bar on the bottom of the window that starts a 12-second decrement when you copy a password.
- saagarjha 7y agohttps://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uipasteboard/optionskey/1829414-expirationdate https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uipasteboard...