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by akldfgj 5031 days ago
> my password is on the clipboard for 45 seconds.

That's not very secure. Why not send the password directly to the input manager (as keyboard events or what-have-you), so the password only is seen by the app that needs it, instead of every app the user is running?

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Yea that sounds quite nice. Any suggestion on the best way to do this? I suppose there could be browser plugins that call out to pass, but what about a generic system? What would you recommend?