Re: risks of custom clipboard types from Ryosuke Niwa on 2011-05-17 (public-webapps@w3.org from April to June 2011)

From: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@webkit.org>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 00:21:44 -0700
To: Paul Libbrecht <paul@activemath.org>
Cc: "Hallvord R. M. Steen" <hallvord@opera.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <BANLkTimXXYiCQY2-7tqc05oPnXyk3Bzpjw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Paul Libbrecht <paul@activemath.org>wrote:
>
> Ryosuke,
> why would sensitive information be readable or writable?
>

Because it has been available through clipboard.  e.g. a popular
productivity application puts a local file path in link elements whenever
you copy & paste table cells.

- Ryosuke

Received on Tuesday, 17 May 2011 07:22:33 UTC