Re: with firefox on X11, any page can pastejack you anytime

[Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen () sdaoden eu>]

Sam Bull wrote in
 <d85658c838a1338c829cee30fb9c344688a2a470.camel () sambull org>:
 |On Wed, 2023-10-18 at 13:25 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote:
 |> I think that this is more a problem with X11 security than it is a 
 |> problem specific to Mozilla / Firefox.
 |
 |Also a problem with shell security. If you paste something with line \
 |breaks into bash, it
 |executes them. If you paste the same into fish, it doesn't (it'll display \
 |the multi-line
 |input and expect you to hit the enter key to execute it as a command).

That is plain not true, but depends on the "bracketed paste" mode
of readline which in turn depends on the terminal (emulator) and
likely even upon the ncurses library.
See bash(1) (Readline Variables, enable-bracketed-paste, default
on).  Btw Mr. Dickey (ncurses, xterm, vile, etc) has an
informative page on this:

  https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm-paste64.html

 --End of <d85658c838a1338c829cee30fb9c344688a2a470.camel () sambull org>

(Not that it matters, but the MUA i maintain does not yet support
bracketed paste mode, its own yanking mechanism works only like
that though.  I will implement it for v14.10, it is in TODO.)

--steffen
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