Hello. Did you know that it is possible for any website to access your clipboard and send of its contents to the website owner. It can be done in Javascript and is bad if you are copying personal information such as a password. I have written an article in my blog about it with an explanation of how it works, how to protect yourself and have also created a demo that will show whether you are vulnerable or not. Here is a link: JavaScript Can Read Your ClipBoard If you think its good then please social bookmark it Thanks Calum
Yeah, Firefox users, and any other wb browser users are protected from it, it only that thing by M$ that isn't, strange how something that is free is better than something that you can only get with a $xxx OS.
Its not a security issue, IE include it for many reasons. As you can see by having the option to up the security button its built in for a reason, this is no reason to slam IE.
Having the option means having to actually do it though. Considering that most of IE's users are using IE because it's the default browser for them (Which is fair enough. No need for them to switch ), but security should be something they never have to worry about.
IE7 actually warns you that X web site is trying to access the clipboard...it asks you to allow interaction or to deny. But who knows, the JS demons probably have a script to bypass the security feature!
Yes but only if it is enabled, I know several people who had it freely accessable without them knowing.
This is old news. It isn't like a website could steal the contents of your clipboard and get anything useful in most cases. Even if they do get a password such as KJD8sd9dF- do they know what website it corresponds to? Or even your username? No. The risk is low, but still valid in some cases. Still really old news...
I figured by the time IE7 rolled out they forced everything to be enabled. Are you sure you want to visit this site? Are you sure you want to spell check...
Yeah, you know when you first use it you have to enable your home page as a new tab page or else it just goes to a blank page. It also isn't clear what to do but in FireFox it is easy.