alcinnz@alcinnz@floss.social

Don't Trust Copy And Paste Even With JavaScript Disabled - fyr.io:
fyr.io/post/don't_trust_copy_a

fyr.ioDon't Trust Copy And Paste Even With JavaScript DisabledCopying and pasting from some random website is dangerous. Lots of people are recommending that you disable JavaScript to protect against this. However, not only does that break almost every website ever, it also doesn't actually prevent the issue. Here's how you can trick someone into running malicious code via copy/paste WITHOUT JavaScript
Jul 5, 2026, 18:16 UTCen
cybervegan@cybervegan@autistics.life

Replying to @alcinnz@floss.social

@alcinnz I think it's worth noting that your trust in the source site needs to also be considered. CnP from your own company or group documentation wiki, or official software or OS documentation wiki is much more trustworthy than a web forum or social communication platform.

For example, I'll sometimes copy and paste from the official online FreeBSD or Debian documentation, because they have a very good reputation.

Usually, however, I'll want to more thoroughly understand what is being done by the command, so I will often manually re-type it, whilst looking up options in the manpage as I go...