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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by pavel_lishin on Sunday June 26, 2016 @11:06AM (#11981079)
I wonder how often people just type out the full password into the address bar or into notepad, and then start counting to find the nth digit.
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by christianmann on Sunday June 26, 2016 @12:51PM (#11981513)
Don't be ridiculous. They probably type it into Microsoft Word.
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Gaelan on Monday June 27, 2016 @01:08AM (#11984294)
I hope not the address bar, as that goes to Google (or $searchEngine) for autocomplete.
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