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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Is it more secure to copy and paste passwords?

Is it a good idea to copy a password from an (encrypted) file and paste it into the appropriate place? Will this defeat keyloggers? Derek Winslow

It's often convenient to paste in passwords but this would defeat only the simplest keylogging malware. It is trivially easy to capture the contents of the Windows clipboard.

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