Re: NSSecureTextField and paste
Re: NSSecureTextField and paste
- Subject: Re: NSSecureTextField and paste
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:44:42 -0700
On 21 May '08, at 6:31 AM, Torsten Curdt wrote:
It' absolutely annoying that paste is disabled in NSSecureTextField.
From the docs it sounds like that really is on purpose.
That seems inconsistent, since other password fields in the user
interface are pasteable, like the password textfields on web pages in
Safari.
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. (Apple being inconsistent in its HI?! Shock
horror! ;-)
I paste passwords into web forms pretty often, because Safari's
autofill doesn't always work, for some reason (and some web pages
explicitly disable it.)
I don't keep the passwords around in plain text, though. I look them
up in Keychain Access and copy from there.
—Jens
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