clipboard integration -- possible security implications

[Glenn Ervin]

I have always heard that there is some windows spyware which can hack one's 
clipboard and highjack the data.
For this possibility, I always, after copying my credit card number to be 
pasted in on a web page, I copy some other text to over-write the credit 
card number.
Glenn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <kline.zachary at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: clipboard integration -- possible security implications


Hi William,
I can understand the security implications as you outline them.
Personally, whatever I've needed to copy from a text console has been
easy enough to handle via xclip.  I certainly don't need to do this sort
of thing every day.  It almost seems to me to be more trouble than it's
worth.
Maybe someone with a more frequent need for this sort of integration
could give us a different perspective?
Best,
Zack.
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