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Re:Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period by ntumlin on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:43AM (#13855720)
Disallowing autofill I could understand to prevent people from accidentally saving credentials on public devices.

Maybe disallowing pasting is a (bad) attempt to disallow automated password guessing.

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Re:Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period by Cthulhu_ on Monday March 13, 2017 @04:29AM (#13856114)
Better safe than sorry right? I mean I can imagine pasting stuff into forms via some JS is how script kiddies start out.
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Re:Digital Identity Guidelines: Public Comment Period by Already__Taken on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:12AM (#13856296)
If you don't let keepass paste into your form I'm just not going to use you.
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