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Originally Posted by Tricky
I never knew this was possible until someone pointed it out to me...How many times have you "Copied" your password from somewhere in order to enter it on a website logon or something?
Well I've just found out that the contents of your clipboard are available to anyone!!!
Using JavaScript :
<script language="javascript">
document.write(clipboardData.getData("Text"));
</script>
For an example:
http://www.um8.co.uk/clipbrd.htm
This is fine until you leave one site (that you cut and paste the password for) and go to another site that reads the clipboard!!! |
Wait up a mo. Thats only in Javascript, which is a client side scripting language. The only way to send this to another server is to have it as a post or a get form redirect and that is always a risk with nearly any browser that supports Javascript anyway. And the answer, dont copy your passwords onto the clipboard. Spyware can do this too. Dont think youre safe anywhere.