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You practice security your way and I'll do it my way!

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kmoorevs

RyanDev wrote:

Wasn't that a feature?

Miss the joke icon? The only insecure thing I can think of with pasting is that the password stays on the clipboard until I replace it. Copy/Pasting from my password app enables the use of complicated and far more secure passwords than if I had to type them in manually.

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ZurdoDev

kmoorevs wrote:

Miss the joke icon?

Unfortunately no. I've seen applications do it.

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Sander Rossel

Cornelius Henning wrote:

If you copy and paste passwords from an encrypted and password protected Excel spreadsheet your passwords can be much longer and complex.

The post-its with all my passwords on my monitor beg to differ :) Anyway, I'm going to do some banking stuff and after that off to bed, goodnight! sanderrossel g5#Hr@!45Td%fS357Po0$#_poS

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Lost User

Clipboard hooks. Simple solution, open your app in a separate desktop with limited rights.

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Lost User

I see your: g5#Hr@!45Td%fS357Po0$#_poS and I raise you: sWd45{{lm==946??hy{422}=?}}GindK{}ll7PXRFh655Erw{90##Mki**55{}KlimdWww33nn2K5X6HKE :)

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Peter_in_2780

.... or use something like KeePass, which only leaves the password on the clipboard for a few seconds.

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dandy72

Cornelius Henning wrote:

very latest version

Not quite.

Cornelius Henning wrote:

This installs as version 170513-2252.

The Insider Update I have in a VM currently reports as 170603-1840.

Lost User

..on a separate desktop as I described; otherwise any clipboard-hook will have the contents as soon as the clipboard changes.

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Nicholas Marty

Cornelius Henning wrote:

Also typing a password exposes you to keyloggers

And using clipboard exposes you to malware that reads the clipboard. Every program can access it at any time. So the advantage of using a password manager is that you can create an unique password for everything and don't have to remember them all. If you have malware running on your machine there is nothing that can truly prevent it from intercepting a password.

Lost User

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The Insider Update I have in a VM currently reports as 170603-1840.

Yes, you're right. I corrected my mistake. :)

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Lost User

Can you elaborate a little, please. What do you mean by "separate desktop"?

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Lost User

A new desktop object in which you can open Windows. See CreateDesktop function (MSDN)[^]. --edit The login-screen is an example of another desktop than the one that you are using normally. Access to that desktop is limited, even if you are running a background application on yours :)

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Lost User

Thanks!:thumbsup:

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Lost User

You're welcome :)

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dandy72

:-) They're coming out so fast at times it's hard to keep up to date. I've certainly never made any attempting at tracking them all. I just let it install whatever it wants in my VM.

Lost User

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And now, the hack is done And so I face the HR person My password, I saved it clear I wrote my login, of which I'm certain I've got a disk that is screwed I traveled each and every website And more, much more than this, I did it my way

You've gotta love Sinatra, he knew his IT stuff :laugh:

Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.

Lost User

Well [^this](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0c/bb/00/0cbb0008dc9ce282aa20cb604a4460ed.jpg) did come to mind :laugh: A bunch of guys arguing about copy and paste security on an operating system that sends all your stuff up to Microsoft anyway :laugh:

Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.

Lost User

Install a proxy and you can see (and modify) what is being sent; also, the keylogger was not included until Win10. One does not argue about something that can be verified, that's a waste of time :)

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