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Episode: 2100
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Title: HPR2100: Re-Enable Copy and Paste in Browsers
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2100/hpr2100.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 14:17:41
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This in HPR episode 2,100 been titled, Reenable Copy and Paste in Brownen, it is posted
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by Ken Fallon and in about 5 minutes long, the summary is how to bypass a roadblock
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implemented by Navas Crypt.
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Hi everybody, my name is Ken Fallon and you're listening to another episode of Hacker
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Public Radio.
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Today I want to talk to you about re-enabling copying and pasting in your browser.
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I came across this on a few sites recently where in the vein attempt to improve password
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security, they require you to re-type your password in the confirmation field and they
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would not let you paste it in.
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So for example, if your password is correct horse battery stable, you need to type that
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into the first one and you also then need to re-type it into the bottom one.
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Now most of these sites also require you to have upper and lower case and zeros and
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squiggly and all sorts of things, so T or zero, UB4, DOR, Apercent 3 with an uppercase
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T.
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So yes, as somebody who has a policy of having long and unique passwords on various
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different websites, I just tracked them using my own system and 40 characters long with
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random passwords.
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You can imagine that not being able to paste it in actually diminishes the level of security
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because I will, in my 40 characters, make a mistake in an upper and lower case if I
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have to do that.
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So this practice should stop and it should stop immediately.
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You want to encourage people to put in as long passwords as possible and to use the password
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manager.
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In fact, you should be recommending that on your website.
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All the reason people disable copy and paste and right-clicking and all this stuff is
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to prevent people from viewing the source code of their files.
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Well I think that's a very rude thing to do in the web because the web is built on the
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foundation of people being able to look at other people's codes and look at a lot of
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the people's innovations and be able to while a copy get inspiration from the code that
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other people have written.
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And in some cases, yes, copy away because that's what the license allows you to do.
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So I consider it just rather rude that you have built up your expertise over the years
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and you're preventing somebody from preventing the new users from being able to view your
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website.
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And of course, the barrier that you are preventing are the people who are new to the technology
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because anybody who's been working with browsers over a period of time will already be used
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and stuff like Fiddler or Proxies and will already be able to press F12 and to develop
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for tools and be able to view in and see exactly what you're doing.
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So you're achieving absolutely nothing because you do not own the environment on which the
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code you're writing runs on.
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That is owned by another person and that person can do pretty much whatever they want because
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it's their computer.
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Technically, morally, that is the way it is and realistically, that is the way it is.
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So however, to make it life easier for us, I just want to bring to your attention two
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little places where you can enable a copy and paste and in Firefox, it's actually quite
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easy and Nicholas Miller and the link it will be in the show notes explains how he
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re-enabled it for PayPal.
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And you go into a bout, call on config and then you type in a clipboard and then you'll
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see dom.events.clipboards.enabled and the Boolean is such a true.
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If you double click, that will switch to false and that allows you to copy and paste in Firefox.
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In Chrome, it's a little bit more complex and I had to search for two plugins to do
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exactly the same thing.
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One is called allow copy and the other one is don't and the effort with paste makes it
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very hard to find on the Chrome store because that word is filtered out but the link is
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in the show notes here to this episode and both of them when enabled will happily allow
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you to copy and paste in your secure password and allow you to get on your day with your day
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without the annoyances of pretend security theater.
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Okay folks, apologies for that little rant and tune in to our offer another exciting
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episode of Hacker Public Radio.
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