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February 22, 2015

Web developers that prevent1 pasting into password fields can die in a fire.


  1. For normal people that don’t hack the DOM using the inspector. ↩

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  1. Dre Armeda
    View February 22, 2015

    It’s more secure buddy! šŸ˜€

  2. Noel Tock
    View February 22, 2015

    And those which disallow copy pasting in the ‘confirm your email’ field :/

  3. @daankortenbach
    View February 22, 2015

    @alexkingorg @karimmarucchi here’s a bookmarklet that solves the problem: http://t.co/Nm258GPwu0

    • @daankortenbachreplied:
      View February 22, 2015

      @alexkingorg @karimmarucchi and here’s a Chrome extension ā€œDon’t fuck with pasteā€: https://t.co/V0xapLq1UD

  4. Chris Mospaw
    View February 22, 2015

    Especially so if that Password must be 8 to 12 characters in length, start with a capital letter, have a symbol at the end and at least three numbers within it. Because entropy.

  5. @colmdelaney1
    View February 22, 2015

    RT @alexkingorg: Web devs that prevent[1] pasting into password fields can die in a fire.

    [1] For normal people that don’t hack the DOM.

  6. @calendee
    View February 22, 2015

    Apple is the worst about preventing pasting passwords and deleting if login fails. http://t.co/ysLSnSNqVQ

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