From: Bob H. <ha...@st...> - 2006-02-20 17:51:22
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Miguel wrote: > > The clipboard is not accessible to an untrusted applet ... access to the > clipboard was deemed a security problem. > READ: "IS A CLEAR" security problem. The problem is that there is only "total" access -- not "paste" alone, just "copy and paste". So any applet that can write to the clipboard can also read from it. Definitely a security issue. So if we wanted to implement this, we would need to be very clear that no reading of the clipboard is being done. Bob -- Robert M. Hanson, ha...@st..., 507-646-3107 Professor of Chemistry, St. Olaf College 1520 St. Olaf Ave., Northfield, MN 55057 mailto:ha...@st... http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein |