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Disabling paste makes sense when setting your password.

If presented with two input fields for password & confirm your password, the lazy among us will type the desired new password in the first input box, then copy the contents and paste into the second... if you type it incorrectly in the first box you then have to reset it before you can log in again.

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Browsers disable copy on password fields.

hah, I was in firefox at the time and checked that I can copy and paste between password fields, it appeared to work.

I didn't look at what had been inserted into the clipboard though, it was just the asterisk characters visually displayed in the password field.

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