To be very cynical: It means that keyloggers can nab your password, so I guess it depends on the motivations of the website owners.
On 2014/Jun/30, at 2:28 PM, Paul Bolger wrote: > So does disabling pasting into the password field provide any benefit > for the site owner, besides annoying the users? > > > > On 30 June 2014 15:01, Scott Howard <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Rick Welykochy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> A comment on the plug-in page mentioned security and privacy issues being >>> addressed >>> by this plug-in. Now that I think about it, I suppose anything on your >>> clipboard could >>> be surreptitiously copied to rogue websites. Not a pleasant thought. Do >>> you know what >>> is in your clipboard right now? >>> >> >> None of the major browsers allow websites (including Javascript/etc) to >> access the contents of the clipboard. >> >> Flash used to be able to do it, but I'm fairly sure that was removed >> several versions ago. >> >> Scott >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link -- Kim Holburn IT Network & Security Consultant T: +61 2 61402408 M: +61 404072753 mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
