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Re: [Full-disclosure] VNC viewers: Clipboard of host automatically sent to remote machine
- To: GloW - XD <doomxd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] VNC viewers: Clipboard of host automatically sent to remote machine
- From: Peter Osterberg <j@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:40:14 +0100
I could never lower myself to your level so I guess you win....
On 01/25/2012 10:32 AM, GloW - XD wrote:
> you are seriously more retarded than even the n3td3v+me+you
> together...damn army..!
>
>
> On 25 January 2012 19:29, Peter Osterberg <j@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> Wasn't the original thread originally about VNC?
>>
>> On 01/25/2012 09:27 AM, GloW - XD wrote:
>>> derp, do you know what KVM IP is ?
>>> readup on how that relays ;)
>>> thats that.
>>> XD
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25 January 2012 18:44, Peter Osterberg <j@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 01/24/2012 07:18 PM, Mario Vilas wrote:
>>>>>> Guys, could you please read carefully everything before you reply?
>>>>> I read carefully. It still didn't make sense, though.
>>>>>
>>>>>> And you wouldn't be allowed to use copy&paste while you edit sensitive
>>>>>> documents either, I guess?
>>>>> I don't know how you could get to such a conclusion from what I wrote.
>>>>>
>>>>> You're reporting that if you copy and paste sensitive information and
>>>>> connect to a VNC session your clipboard data gets sent to the remote
>>>>> machine. That's pretty obvious and not a security hole that needs to
>>>>> be plugged.
>>>> I don't think that is what Ben is saying. The clipboard get sent to the
>>>> the server even before it is pasted, this happens without the user
>>>> knowing of it.
>>>>
>>>> Notepad would have the paste button grayed otherwise, if the clipboard
>>>> is empty, right? So it is already on the server before paste is pressed.
>>>>
>>>> So what ever was in the clipboard buffer is transmitted to the server on
>>>> connection.
>>>>
>>>> This is at least the assumption I make from reading Ben's mails. Or...
>>>> Is there a cliboard flag saying there is something on the clipboard, but
>>>> it isn't transmitted until the user actually pastes? I haven't really
>>>> got any experience with how the clipboard feature is implemented. My
>>>> assumption is however that it has to be on server for notepad to be
>>>> aware that Paste shouldn't be grayed out...
>>>>
>>>> I think Ben's report make complete sense actually, it would be better to
>>>> have the clipboard feature as a default. Security before features... =)
>>>>
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