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I don't agree with it either, but the reasoning i've always seen has been along the lines of, "it prevents people from putting passwords into the clipboard whic
by simcop2387 2y ago
I don't agree with it either, but the reasoning i've always seen has been along the lines of, "it prevents people from putting passwords into the clipboard which can be stolen by other programs", and then similarly for disabling browser or password manager autofill "because it prevents people from making a mistake and letting a field get filled with a password when it shouldn't". Basically leading to "users should just manually type in and remember all their passwords" at the extreme end of the reasoning.
- nehal3m 2y agoThat doesn't make sense. If I wanted to type a password into some other program for whatever reason I wouldn't find out that I can't paste into the password field until I had already tried.
- mtlynch 2y agoI know it's not your argument but that doesn't make sense either. Processes on desktop OSes can read each other's memory anyway if they're being run by the same user.
- antisthenes 2y ago> "it prevents people from putting passwords into the clipboard which can be stolen by other programs" But how does this logic work when a keylogger can basically do the same thing to a typed password?