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Re: [LUG] Possible browser security problem
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] Possible browser security problem
- From: Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 16:08:11 +0100
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On Wednesday, 15 July 2020 21:18:15 BST comrade meowski wrote:
>
> The first casualty of disabling it would be your password manager and
> things would only get worse from there.
Many password managers don't routinely use the paste buffer for precisely this
sort of reason.
If you are routinely sticking passwords in the paste buffer consider a better
password manager that fills the passwords in for youIf you have to paste you
can still be phished, which defeats most of the win, as human error still
lurks at the heart of the login steps.
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