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by edave64 1594 days ago
That is exactly what is discussed in the article. A way to notify the user if a program request the contents of the clipboard. iOS apperently does just that.

The thing with the clipboard is that the feature is ancient. And back then, most applications were generally very unconcerned with security. So now the genie is out of the bottle, and it's difficult to convince some people that it's a problem.

The article's POC works for X only, which, as far as I understand, doesn't even prevent applications from reading each others keystrokes, much less clipboard. That just wasn't any kind of priority when it was created

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anything similar for Mac OS?