Firefox password copy

JrLz · 12-20-2004, 05:02 AM

hey, isn't it forbidden, unsafe to let the user to copy password characters ??
and paste it to other docs.........
Bad programs can easily use that to cheat passwords...

I realized that Firefox let it happen, while IE doesn't.
Anybody has comments about that?

corfe · 12-20-2004, 04:04 PM

I just tried this out, and when I paste the password I just get *'s. It does show me the length of the password, I guess, but you could already see that when you copied it. I'm in Debian Sid, using Firefox 1.0 - what version are you using, and what different behavior do you see / how do you get it to happen?

JrLz · 12-20-2004, 08:01 PM

I'm using Windows version, ver 0.9.3
When I pasted it, it did show *(s) , the same length, and I've seen many programs which can read, convert those *(s) to characters and you got it..............