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Don't allow clipboard access/manipulation in secure mode #1421

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Reported by jteh on 2011-03-22 18:51
The clipboard is not specific to input desktop. I'm not sure what scope it really has, but I'm guessing it is session wide. Unfortunately, this means the user's clipboard can be accessed from the lock screen, which is bad because the user has intentionally locked the computer to prevent access by others. This includes the reportClipboardText script, the review_copy script and editable text fields in our GUI. The first two are fairly easy to disable, but the third poses more of a challenge.

From what I've been able to discover, there is no way to disable clipboard access for an Edit control without overriding the clipboard window messages, which is incredibly ugly. A better solution might be to just disable most of the settings dialogs altogether. My concern is that some of them might be needed; e.g. braille settings (for blind deaf users who are able to open it blind), etc.

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