On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Tantek Çelik <tan...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On 2015-05-05 6:31 PM, Daniel Holbert wrote:
> >>
> >> On 05/05/2015 02:51 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Sites such as Github currently use Flash in order to
> >>> allow people to copy text to the clipboard by clicking a button in
> their
> >>> UI.
>
> First, this is awesome and can't wait to try it out.
>
> Second, "cut" is potentially destructive to user data, have you
> considered enabling this only for secure connections? Either way it
> would be good to know the reasoning behind your decision.
>

Hmm, what would that prevent against though?  A web page could just use the
normal DOM APIs to destroy the user data (e.g., something like the contents
of a blog post the user is writing in a blogging web app).  Is this what
you had in mind?

-- 
Ehsan
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