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Simon Tatham@simontatham@hachyderm.io

Free software developer and hobby mathematician.

Author and lead developer of #PuTTY, and "Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection", a set of one-player puzzle games running on many platforms. Also various smaller or less well known things.

Web site: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/ Joined: 2026-09-03 01:53:38 1 notes, 0 following, 0 followers

Simon Tatham@simontatham@hachyderm.io (2026-09-02 22:06:55) I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!