Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?
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Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?
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#2To what degree does Wayland solve this compared to X?
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#3I have removed the LinkedIn and Twitter app because they force directed the website to the app, but good to know that it could also see my clipboard and even track it perhaps..
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#4To what degree does Wayland solve this compared to X?
I believe in Wayland, only foreground applications can access the clipboard. I can’t recall how poorly XWayland fares; I suspect it just bypasses the security boundary. Nonetheless, still useful, especially e.g. for sandboxed apps.
I don’t think clients can, without extensions, watch for who’s snooping the clipboard. However… it probably wouldn’t be difficult to integrate this into the compositor. You could even imagine a Wayland protocol for watching clipboard accesses, or god forbid, a dbus service for doing so.
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#5On recent Android versions you get a pop-up notification whenever an app accesses the clipboard. (I think it doesn't notify for the active app, or maybe it doesn't notify for explicit user-initiated clipboard interactions, I'm not sure exactly what the rules are.) If I saw any app repeatedly accessing the clipboard for no discernible reason, I would definitely uninstall it.
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#6iOS/macOS really need to add clipboard to privacy settings. I opened monopoly on iOS and the first thing it did was paste my clipboard to god knows where.
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#7Why can apps even read it in the first place, as opposed to the os sending it only to apps the user initiates a paste in?
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#8Is it possible to deny clipboard access to every application and only pass the info through stdin through the explicit ctrl-v or pbpaste/xclip/whatever?
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#9Is it possible to deny clipboard access to every application and only pass the info through stdin through the explicit ctrl-v or pbpaste/xclip/whatever?
Yes, on Qubes OS, https://qubes-os.org. It's based on VMs for secure and transparent compartmentalization.
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#10I have taken to copying a benign string after using a sensitive password and I minimize switching tabs during transport of said password.