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Password managers. Auto fill forms. Can’t think of anything else
by TehCorwiz 6y ago
Password managers.
Auto fill forms.
Can’t think of anything else
- riffraff 6y agowhy do password managers need to _read_ the clipboard? It seems they would only need to _write_ to it.
- eyeball 6y agoI see two behaviors in 1Password 1) I go to a site and it auto fills the login. Not sure when clipboard needs to be involved there. Shouldn’t that just be the application taking data from its database, recognizing the associated form, and filling it? 2) I search for a login manually and copy to clipboard. In that case I’d only ever want it to paste when I issue a paste command manually
- thewisenerd 6y agoin my experience, to "restore" clipboard contents after a certain period of time; - read clipboard - write password into clipboard - restore clipboard after X seconds
- jen20 6y agoThere’s no reason this couldn’t be a platform-provided function though - a clipboard “stack” would be rather useful anyway.
- darepublic 6y agoThey read the clipboard if they autofill.
- cma 6y agoWhy?
- darepublic 6y agoTo copy what's in the clipboard (hence read access) and then paste it into the destination input
- JoelMcCracken 6y agoStill doesn't make sense. It sounds like this is a "hack" to implement some functionality which exposes users' private data. What SHOULD happen is that vendors should expose better APIs which allow the password managers to do what they need to do without exposing the users' data. For example, if the implemented functionality is attempting to make a "temporarily store password in clipboard" feature and implementing it by "reading from clipboard/writing to clipboard/restore clipboard contents after N seconds", there should instead be an atomic "store data in clipboard temporarily" feature.