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		rwhitman on May 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed p... I did work for a very security-minded HR outsourcing company on an html site to be used on a public kiosk and we also disabled paste via javascript for the same reason - to prevent a user from being able to paste in a previous user's password at the same terminal.

zaroth on May 6, 2014 [–]

Makes no sense at all... Where ELSE might I be able to paste the contents of my clipboard?

Now, clearing the clipboard AFTER pasting, that might actually make sense!

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