https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470123
Bug ID: 470123
Summary: Hide clipboard entries that are likely to be passwords
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Clipboard
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: h...@outlook.com.au
Target Milestone: 1.0
When passwords and other sensitive information (such as credit credit card
numbers) are copied, there is a risk that users could inadvertently share them
with others by opening their clipboard history.
This risk could be reduced by displaying text that is likely to be a password
as a series of dots (eg "MyPassword123&" could be displayed as "••••••••••••••
(password)").
Ideally, we could also provide a "peek" button in the clipboard picker to allow
users to inspect the copied contents before selecting it.
I don't know a huge amount about how the clipboard works, but if it's also
possible to add metadata to copied text saying "this is a password", that could
be another trigger for Klipper to hide the contents.
I'm not an expert at C++, but it could be fun to try to tackle this myself if
people like the idea.
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