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What I realy like about password safe is that you can drag passwords into text boxes. Most password manager copy your password into the clipboard where every local application can access it. With drag and drop only the designated application will be getting the password.


An application capable of reading the clipboard is just as capable of covertly taking screenshots, recording keystrokes and otherwise compromising data being executed in the context of the same system user. Is gives a false sense of security guarding the clipboard when the real threat is untrustworthy (usually closed-source and proprietary) software itself, executed as a user with privileges.




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