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You can track user’s clipboard using simple JavaScript!

June 25th, 2008

IE lets you access/write/delete data from users clipboard! This comes in very handy for certain things but it’s scary to know that a webpage can access and manipulate your clipboard, which may have sensetive information. The webpage that is tracking this may not have the context of what the data is but it is still a bit scary.

Here is a simple example http://www.loudindian.com/examples/js/TrackClipboard.html that tracks your clipboard, check it out.

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