On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Adam Barth <w...@adambarth.com> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Tyler Close <tyler.cl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> For example, the >> User Consent Phase and Grant Phase above could be replaced by a single >> copy-paste operation by the user. > > Any design that involves storing confidential information in the > clipboard is insecure because IE lets arbitrary web sites read the > user's clipboard. You can judge that to be a regrettable choice by > the IE team, but it's just a fact of the world.
And so we use the alternate, no-copy-paste design on IE while waiting for a better world; one in which users can safely copy data between web pages. I imagine many passwords and other PII are made vulnerable by IE's clipboard policy. --Tyler -- "Waterken News: Capability security on the Web" http://waterken.sourceforge.net/recent.html