Fw: IE5.x users beware - sites can monitor your clipboard! (fwd)

[Jim Choate]

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From: "RTN" <rtn at reclaimthe.net>
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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 1:09 AM
Subject: FYI: IE5.x users beware - sites can monitor your clipboard!


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> Another reason to dump your micro$oft software:
>
>
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> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 08:51:46 +0200
> From: rene at xs4all.nl
> To: discussion at hippiesfromhell.org
> Subject: FYI: IE5.x users beware - sites can monitor your clipboard!
>
> The reason for this post is that I think it might be interesting for some
> websites to
> start to collect the clipboards that employees of NGOs or activists are
using.
>
> Yesyes, I just browsed to http://snoop.anonymizer.com/cgi-bin/peleus.cgi
to get
> some
> info, and saw that my new IE5.x browser actually makes my CLIPBOARD
available to
> the
> site I'm currently viewing...
>
> Since I find this a privacy/security concern for specific groups of
people, I
> thought
> I might share with you on how to disable this 'feature'...
>
> (this done on Win2000 with english IE5)
>
> in techinese:
> menu: Tools | Internet Options
> tab: Security
> select: Internet icon
> button: Custom Level
> under "scripting" set "allow paste operations via script" to 'disable' or
> 'prompt'
>
> in english:
> Click on the "Tools" menu at the top of any browser window, Click on
"Internet
> Options".
> Click on the "Security" tab, top of the window
> Click on the "Internet" icon
> Click on the button "Custom level"
> Find the item in the list that has "scripting" as its 1st-level
description
> Under that, set "allow paste operations via script" to 'disable' or
'prompt'.
>
> Please spread this message to whereever you feel appropriate; I'd
appreciate if
> IT-managers of NGOs such as amnesty etc are notified.
>
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