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by shawn 2843 days ago
There is no security benefit to forbidding pasting. https://www.troyhunt.com/the-cobra-effect-that-is-disabling/

Why do people do it? The same reason people believe /dev/random provides security benefits.

It's important to ignore the correct things. (But it's often hard to figure out what to ignore.)

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Of course, because everyone should be using /dev/urandom instead. \s