Clipboard Data Theft Now Optional With IE7

Posted by Zonk on Thursday December 21, 2006 @08:08AM from the options-are-good dept.

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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Re:not quite by uncommonlygood · 2006-12-21 08:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Don't know about the others, but firefox definitely does implement it, it's just off by default.
Re:Are both ways fixed? by lostboy2 · 2006-12-21 09:15 · Score: 4, Informative

Not "fixed" (as in removed), but apparently you can turn it off in IE4 through IE6.