LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
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Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#2My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#3My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
I wouldn't give the benefit of the doubt to Microsoft...
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#4My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
It's intentional and has been happening on other platforms for years.
Give it a few weeks and people will start posting articles about how it happens on PC / Mac platforms too.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#5Guess I'm never copying and pasting anything sensitive on my phone ever again. Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#6My hunch is these things are more boneheaded than nefarious. Probably looking for URLs to share or something silly like that and just implemented poorly. Obviously not good for the PR, but say sorry and fix the bug. Luckily this shouldn't happen much longer once iOS 14 is properly released.
Hanlon’s razor shows up once again.
Though some apps I trust more with how they use the clipboard data or only restrict it to certain types, eg: image data for a photo viewer, urls for a browser, tracking code for a delivery app
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#7Guess I'm never copying and pasting anything sensitive on my phone ever again. Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag.
I think it's not your phone though in this case, it's the MacBook Pro where the copying is happening
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#8Guess I'm never copying and pasting anything sensitive on my phone ever again. Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag.
I think it's not your phone though in this case, it's the MacBook Pro where the copying is happening
The screen capture is from an iPad Pro. It's not clear how it was getting the Macbook clipboard; via AirDrop maybe? Really that just makes it even more concerning.
Edit: Apparently it's Just A Thing: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/copy-and-paste-betw...
But you can turn it off by turning off "Handoff", which luckily I already had. Nowhere is it mentioned in the settings UI that this extends to your clipboard.
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#9TikTok first, then LinkedIn, then what?
Re: LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke
#10If you're a multi-billion dollar company with a "government relations" team, it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
If you're a random internet weirdo who uses a public interface in an unexpected way, you face decades in prison. [1]
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704312104575299...