Clipboard Data Theft Now Optional With IE7

An anonymous reader writes "It's been known for a long time that Internet Explorer will happily allow any Web site to steal data that users have recently cut-and-pasted or copied into the Windows 'clipboard' data storage area. Well, now it looks like Microsoft has finally decided that this 'feature' was probably ill-advised, according to The Washington Post's Security Fix blog. IE7 throws up a warning asking whether users really want to let a site filch their clipboard data (Firefox, Opera and most other non-IE browsers forbid this behavior by default)."

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I'm helping!

[PingSpike]

Internet Explorer:
Send personal data to unknown source? Click Ok to continue.

Re:not quite

[Intron]

I always cut-n-paste my login information when it has some minimum password length + funny character requirement + no echo. This makes it a lot more convenient to access my bank details from phish sites.

It seemed like a good idea at the time

[Somatic]

Public: What on earth would motivate you to implement such a thing?

MS: It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Public: In what way did it seem like a good idea?

MS: Well, maybe not a good idea, but an idea.

Public: So thinking was involved.

MS: Well, it was more like inspiration.

Public: ...

MS: They throw chairs at us. Help. Please.