Re: NSSecureTextField and paste
Re: NSSecureTextField and paste
- Subject: Re: NSSecureTextField and paste
- From: Matt Gough <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:02 +0200
On 21 May 2008, at 16:05, Torsten Curdt wrote:
From a security point of it makes some sense to prevent pasting.
You don't really want people keeping plain text versions of their
passwords around. Also, whatever was pasted would be left on the
clipboard. That would be very easy for someone passing by your mac
to check for. If people get used to not being able to paste, then
they won't put passwords on the clipboard in the first place.
Hm ...well, I bet joe average will receive the password, copy it
into the clipboard then try to paste ...and then realize that it
does not work and type it.
Indeed, maybe the first one or two times. However I am sure they will
soon learn that this will be futile and hence won't do the copy.
Matt
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