Re: Security Flaw: Any website can read your clipboard text

From: Malke (notreally_at_invalid.com)
Date: 09/18/05

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    sudarmuthu@gmail.com wrote:

    > Web sites you visit can retrieve data from your clipboard depending on
    > your security settings. Go to this page
    > (www.clipboard.googlemyway.com) and see if anything shows up in the
    > box. If you are using Firefox or Opera you probably won't see
    > anything. However, if you are using Internet Explorer then chances are
    > that whatever you last copied into your clipboard will be displayed.

    You have posted this in numerous newsgroups and have ignored all the
    responses you've gotten to those posts. Either you are overly excited
    about this or you are a troll. In any case, enough already - stop
    posting this.

    Malke 

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