Friday, December 5, 2008

"Think twice before pressing Ctrl+C"

We do copy many data by using simple keyboard shortcut Ctrl+C. This copied data gets copied to clipboard and can be pasted anywhere else. At the same time, do you know that the copied data can be accessed from the net by a combination of JavaScripts and ASP.
Just try this :
  1. Copy any text by pressing Ctrl+C
  2. Click the link: http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp
  3. You will see the text you copied was accessed by this webpage.

So dont keep sensitive data like passwords, PIN No, Credit card numbers in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract the text stored in the clipboard to steal your information.

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