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Re:MacOS Sierra by israrkhan on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:27PM (#12541270)
Having I iCloud access to your clipboard is scary ( unless it is encrypted E2E). Now your data, that was otherwise not meant to go to cloud, will endup being there.
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Re:MacOS Sierra by nyc640 on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:38PM (#12541390)
Do you have a source for that? According to this (not so definitive) source [1] it's peer to peer like the rest of the continuity features.

[1] http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/06/23/macos-sierra-preview...

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Re:MacOS Sierra by israrkhan on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:59PM (#12542815)
I dont know the exact implementation. But following article suggests that there is some lag due to data being exchanged with iCloud.

http://www.cnet.com/au/how-to/macos-sierras-universal-clipbo...

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Re:MacOS Sierra by giovannibajo1 on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @01:34PM (#12541337)
I assume it will be backed by the same transport channel used for Handoff / Continuity, which is E2E-encrypted between devices and work on either wifi or bluetooth.
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Re:MacOS Sierra by yaegers on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:30AM (#12545871)
Agreed. "Copy Password to Clipboard", anyone? The thought of having that being transmitted unencrypted to a cloud server is not a nice one...
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