Security Flaw: Any website can read your clipboard text

[sudarmuthu]

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.

 

[Jon]

Just need to have your security settings set right

http://googlemyway.com/clipboard/prevent.html

Jon

 

[Bill James]

The browser being able to read the clipboard and a website being able to read that information are 2 entirely different things.

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Bill James
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User

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[David]

The browser being able to read the clipboard and a website being able to read that information are 2 entirely different things.

Maybe...but I just went to that Website and sure enough what I had recently copied to the Clipboard appeared right
there. Are you saying that the script was able to make the text in Clipboard visible on my machine but it wouldn't be
visible or accessible to any other machine?

David