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Yes. People copy passwords, SSNs, crypto wallet secrets, and more in a clipboard that pretty much any app or website or system service can see without permission. I'm surprised we haven't seen more attacks on it, honestly.

I have long wanted to build a secure multi-clipboard, one where you can copy with Ctrl+shift+1, ctrl+shift+2 etc and paste with Ctrl+1 and Ctrl+2

It would keep those hidden from any app until explicitly pasted. I was thinking you could co-opt the system keyboard to get the same functionality, but it clears the system clipboard instantly after any copy/paste.



Hmm good idea, maybe you can integrate that into Klipper:

https://userbase.kde.org/Klipper




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