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Your Computer's Clipboard is a Security Problem - Fix it in Linux With xsel and cron

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DMT/Linux; By Darren Toback 		Mail this story
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Any program you run can read your clipboard, and its contents linger until another copy event or a reboot. Modern browsers enable multiple ways for malicious websites to read the clipboard contents (or add items in), so eliminate the worry by using a script with cron that auto-clears your clipboard regularly.

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which browser still has this issue? mbaehrlxer 0 3,519 Jan 21, 2017 1:24 PM

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