Who is reading your clipboard?

Ever thought what kind of stuff you keep on your clipboard when you browse the network?

Maybe you keep your account numbers/usernames/passwords in a separate files, and copy/paste them to webpages when you need to. But do you clear the clipboard after that?

I stumbled onto a piece of code that reads data from the clipboard. The code is in javascript, and it’s not rocketscience to use it:

<Script Language="JavaScript">
var content = clipboardData.getData("Text");
alert(content);
</Script>

So, basically anyone could read the stuff off the clipboard while you browse their pages.

One good reason more to turn off javascript, eh?

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