[phkahler]

>> They used to check your clipboard the whole time too.

That's a design error on the UI side. An app should not have read access to the clipboard, it should have the ability to accept data from the clipboard when the user pastes it.

[f1refly]

There's legitamate uses though, of which I was made painfully aware when google crippled the api and kde connect clipboard sync became way less impressive

[Spivak]

The problem is with clipboard access is because apps abuse it not because it's a problem that have read access at all. Google Maps pulling my clipboard which has an address in it as the top suggestion for destinations is a good thing and respect the user's time.

[phkahler]

>> The problem is with clipboard access is because apps abuse it not because it's a problem that have read access at all. Google Maps pulling my clipboard which has an address in it as the top suggestion for destinations is a good thing and respect the user's time.

You can't have it both ways. Malicious apps are going to abuse it. In order to avoid that there needs to be access control at the very least - Google maps could get whitelisted for example.

Having a helpful use-case doesn't make it not a security issue.