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Comment by aragilar

5 hours ago

It's been in Debian for more than 20 years (see changelog here: https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/s/stardict/changel...). It's not clear to me if said "autosend off clipboard contents" has been in there the whole time though.

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npteljes  5 hours ago

Data leaking bug reported as early as 2009: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534731 , so it's not looking rosy.

  • aragilar  5 hours ago

    Which is interesting (as according to the LWN article) it seems like the general issue of what is sent is an ever-present one for StarDict, as apparently the earlier issue was around the defaults for all dictionaries, whereas the new issue is around a specific plugin.

    Personally, if I was using (or a maintainer of) a dictionary tool which autoreads the clipboard (or any dictionary tool), I'd be checking what it is doing and considering whether it is what I would want to use.