[reitanqild]

> Using the clipboard at all for security related things like temporarily storing a password is a bad idea.

(Emphasis mine.)

Well. The moment you have evil code running on your box, as you, then I'll naively assume you have a bigger problem to deal with anyway.

> The clipboard is a big public billboard visible to anything running on your computer.

And everything from client work to love letters in my home folder is available to anything that runs as me, unless I've gone out of our way to secure it - and succeed.

Not saying the clipboard isn't a problem.

Not saying browsers shouldn't expose a carefully thought out API.

But the way I read your post it might scare people away from password managers and back to a single password or passwords written on papers stored within reach from the workplace.

[davidhyde]

> But the way I read your post it might scare people away from password managers and back to a single password or passwords written on papers stored within reach from the workplace. Browser extension password managers are very much a step in the right direction. For most people, they strike the right balance between convenience and security. I guess I'm just a very paranoid developer who does not value that convenience as much as most.