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)."

Comments

To all Micro$oft apologists

[Bohemoth2]

Ok, you can STFU and sit down now.
This is not FUD from the FOSS community.
This is reality.

Re:Who would have thought

[dave420]

Well, Firefox has the same feature, so I guess you have to be angry with them, too.