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Dude if your clipboard is untrusted in your threat model then you have bigger problems. Any program that is reading your clipboard could also be logging your keys, watching your webcam, recording your screen, or exfiltrating your files.

Have a reasonable security model please

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The clipboard is extra vulnerable. It requires no privileges at all to read. Up until very recently, JavaScript in your browser could pull content directly out of your clipboard.

Even beyond that, copy and pasting is training users to copy and paste. This is an even bigger threat imho. There is no layer of extra validation.

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