Microsoft Finally Adds Stupidly Obvious Security Feature
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The Washington Post reports that IE 7 will not have the long known flaw that allows a website to steal the data that may be hanging out in your clipboard.
For those who don't know, the clipboard is where anything you cut and paste hangs out. The trick is, it stays there until you cut or copy something else. So, if the last thing you copied was your tax record from one document to another and then you visit a nosy website, they could have all that data.
If it seems as stupid to you as it does to me that IE allowed this in the first place, then you'll understand why the security community knocks Microsoft products.
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