Who Can See What is on your clipboard if you use Internet Explorer?
Many people frequently use Ctrl+C to copy information from one application to another. I have been brushing up on my programming skills and while doing so I found out how easy it is to view information from the clipboard from someone’s computer who uses Internet Explorer (It doesn’t work in FireFox but I am not sure about other browsers).
Do you want to see how easy it is for a website to view the information on your clipboard?
Then follow these steps:
1. Highlight any text and press Ctrl+C.
2. Now click on the following link to see the copied text.
http://www.jerryandmissy.com/work/clipboard.htm
This is all possible with one line of code that can be written using Java script.
The code is:
document.getElementById("textbox").innerText =
window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
To stop this from happening to you in IE:
1. Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Security
2. Click on the Custom Level Security Setting and uncheck the option "Allow Paste Operations via Script.”