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Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by duozerk on Saturday February 25, 2017 @12:58PM (#13732795)
Because you usually don't have control over that. On lots of system, any application that can display an UI can access the current clipboard's contents.
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Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by maxerickson on Saturday February 25, 2017 @03:11PM (#13733576)
Taking a step back from the problem, users do usually have some amount of control over what is running on a system.

I mean, I understand that computers managed by typical users will be a shitshow, but much of the problem in that situation is that they don't really care.

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Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by chongli on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:39PM (#13733026)
Is there any way to globally disable clipboard access in my browser? Jeez, this sounds horrifying!
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Re:Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed... by duozerk on Saturday February 25, 2017 @02:05PM (#13733164)
I believe the browser is one of the few applications that already take this into account, fortunately. Clipboard access from Javascript is secure, for example.
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