Clipboard insecurity

Jim Credland (jim@DEMON.NET)
Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:31:54 +0100

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, it was certainly new to
Microsoft when I mentioned it too them.

If you lock your workstation it's still possible to paste the contents of the
clipboard buffer into the "User name" prompt. Not terribly clever for hiding
what you've been doing.

Microsoft acknowledge the problem but made no promises about fixing it.
Obvious workaround.

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jim credland                                             network security
who can you trust?                                     demon internet ltd