The "Cobra Effect" that is disabling paste on password fields
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/
Unfortunately, the enterprising locals saw things differently
and interpreted the "cash for cobras" scheme as a damn good
reason to start breeding serpents and raking in the dollars.
Having now seen the flaw in their original logical, the poms
quickly scrapped the scheme meaning no more snake bounty.
Naturally the only thing for the locals to do with their now
worthless cobras was to set them free so that they may seek
out a nice cosy British settlement somewhere. This became
known as the Cobra Effect or in other words, a solution to a
problem that actually makes the whole thing a lot worse.
Here's a modern day implementation of the Cobra Effect as it
relates to the ability to paste your password into a login
field ...
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The inability to paste into a password field drives me bats. It makes
security *worse*, not better!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently
doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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