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How is manipulating clipboard not a problem? What if something replaces your fingerprint or bitcoin address?
by yreg 6y ago
How is manipulating clipboard not a problem? What if something replaces your fingerprint or bitcoin address?
- Spivak 6y agoAn app being able to declare some operations to perform on the clipboard (overwrite, append, etc) that don't return any information about the contents are not a problem from a privacy or security perspective. At most they can be annoying.
- HanayamaTriplet 6y agoIf your clipboard contents were overwritten with an arbitrary wallet address immediately before you paste into an exchange's "Send BTC to..." field, that would be a pretty big problem. I wouldn't expect that most people would double-check to make sure a series of gibberish characters matches what they expect, especially if they don't have any reason to suspect that paste wouldn't output exactly what they copied a moment ago.