TBF, I kind of get it. If someone is using a public computer you wouldn’t want someone to be able to sign into a site they left open because they copied their password.
However, this won’t prevent anyone from copying the password into something like notepad and just typing it out. So in the end, it’s useless and makes things less user friendly. Which is what I expect these days.
I suspect the reasoning for it was more along the lines of “if you’re pasting the password, that means you probably saved it in a text file on your desktop or something, and you shouldn’t do that so let’s stop you from doing it”. In reality, it probably didn’t work to make anyone store passwords more securely, and only made life unnecessarily harder for people with password managers
No they shouldn’t. They should require a guest account that clears the session on logout. If you fail to log out when you’re finished, well, mistakes have consequences. I’m tired of being handcuffed so incompetent people can have their hands held.
TBF, I kind of get it. If someone is using a public computer you wouldn’t want someone to be able to sign into a site they left open because they copied their password.
However, this won’t prevent anyone from copying the password into something like notepad and just typing it out. So in the end, it’s useless and makes things less user friendly. Which is what I expect these days.
Literally just as secure and better behavior. Just use your brain for a few seconds.
Edit: Actually it’s MORE secure because disallowing paste leaves the password or whatever in the clipboard without the user necessarily realizing it…
wait, could i make a website that clears everyones clipboard if they visit it?
Yep
I suspect the reasoning for it was more along the lines of “if you’re pasting the password, that means you probably saved it in a text file on your desktop or something, and you shouldn’t do that so let’s stop you from doing it”. In reality, it probably didn’t work to make anyone store passwords more securely, and only made life unnecessarily harder for people with password managers
Public computers should just have their pastebin locked.
They shouldn’t mess with things on my personal computer.
No they shouldn’t. They should require a guest account that clears the session on logout. If you fail to log out when you’re finished, well, mistakes have consequences. I’m tired of being handcuffed so incompetent people can have their hands held.