- From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:26:48 -0400
- To: Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-webapps@w3.org
On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry if this is a lame question but I never understood the dangers of Copy and Paste that the web is trying to avoid. Can someone explain that to me? > Its a point of data egress. You don't want sensitive information from one program scraped and egressed by another. The first program could be a browser and the second program could be malware. In this case, the malware looks for data placed on the clipboard by the browser (and hopes to get a username, password, sensitive document, etc). Or, it could be another program with the browser scraping the data and hauling it off to a site. Jeff
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