Rather than doing this by hand via Firebug/Chrome Inspect Element, it might be worth looking into creating a quick Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-On (or even a

Rather than doing this by hand via Firebug/Chrome Inspect Element, it might be worth looking into creating a quick Chrome Extension or Firefox Add-On (or even a userscript) to do this for you. I understand the initial rationale behind not allowing you to paste a password: (1) Pasting a password can allow a malicious user to find your password somewhere and paste it in (as it would take much more time to type by hand). This doesn't make any sense - as you pointed out, there are programmatic ways to avoid actually being unable to paste. Furthermore, a malicious user going through a password list would likely be using a command line interface or script, and not bothering with a GUI anyway. I'd call this issue completely moot. (2) You could accidentally paste it somewhere else. This has a little more value, but it doesn't come anywhere close to being a valid reason to disallow pasting. The security benefits of using a secure password manager (like KeePass or a TrueCrypt volume with a password list) are so much greater than Blizzard (or anyone) worrying about what you're going to do with your paste buffer. The problem with putting any limitations on passwords that a user can use is that they almost always backfire. Sure, it might have made more sense when hashing algorithms crapped out after several characters, but in today's world those hashing algorithms shouldn't be used anyway.