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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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mbaehrlxer ·
firefox considers clipboard access a security risk and consequently blocks access. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Granting_JavaScript_access_to_the_...

i believe this should be the default in all browsers, so i'd like to know which browsers still allow clipboard access.

greetings, eMBee.

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