On Jul 26, 2014, at 8:26 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Perry Smith <pedz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry if this is a lame question but I never understood the dangers of Copy >> and Paste that the web is trying to avoid. Can someone explain that to me? >> > Its a point of data egress. You don't want sensitive information from > one program scraped and egressed by another. > > The first program could be a browser and the second program could be > malware. In this case, the malware looks for data placed on the > clipboard by the browser (and hopes to get a username, password, > sensitive document, etc). > > Or, it could be another program with the browser scraping the data and > hauling it off to a site. I thought about that. So it is not so much the Copy and Paste operations as much as being able to get the content of the clipboard. ?
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