[tahoe-dev] Giving away the clipboard data

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Mar 12, 2010, at 21:27, Chris Palmer wrote:
> 
>> There is also the threat of copy/paste mishaps. As they should be, the
>> gestures to perform pasting are very easy and habituatable. Have you  
>> ever swiped your mouse across an array of xterms and pasted your email  
>> into IRC by accident? :)

As it happens, I made exactly that mistake today (fortunately with a
harmless string), on Windows.

> From us Mac/Windows users, this rather sounds like a design flaw in  
> X11 UI conventions.

Well, any app can read the clipboard without explicit user action on
Mac/Windows. All commonly used OSes/window systems give excess authority
to apps here. It's true that X11's convention may be a little more
accident-prone even when all apps are non-malicious, though.

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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