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Chris Laprise:
> On 11/23/2016 08:13 PM, HW42 wrote:
>> Chris Laprise:
>>> On 11/23/2016 07:17 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 06:29:40PM -0500, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> I would like feedback on:
>>>>>>> 1) Is dom0->other copying (not the other direction) something we even 
>>>>>>> want?
>>>>>> Yes. Of course with explicit user consent.
>>>>> I believe a keyboard shortcut triggered in dom0 is a trustworthy
>>>>> indication of this. No?
>>>> Yes, it is. Just stressing it out.
>>> This does sound a bit risky to me. If this existed and I had the
>>> option, I'd turn it off.
>> Could you clarify why you think it's risky?
> 
> Because a user doing config/maintenance in dom0 CLI may well be
> switching back and forth to domUs (searching for howtos, etc) at the
> same time they are using the dom0 clipboard to copy and paste
> information between multiple dom0 windows. As it is now, I can be at
> peace that Shift-Ctrl-V won't send any snippets from dom0 clipboard
> into a domU.
> 
> Even if this used a special key combination, getting used to it means
> there is a risk of absent-mindedly triggering it instead of a similar
> domU-only function.

Sure there is a risk that a user copy&pastes by accident from dom0. But
why do you think that it's likely that the dom0 clipboard contains
sensitive information? I would expect that it's much more likely to
happen when somebody copies a password form a vault VM (and that's a
usage error which is very tricky to prevent).
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