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Pastebud: App-less iPhone Copy & Paste, Can also go horribly Wrong as well

Sat, Dec 13, 2008

iPhone Applications

While almost everybody’s lusting after cut, copy & paste functionality for the iPhone, not every work around that promises to deliver such a feature can live up to its word especially if its not available through the App Store. One good example of this is Pastebud. It works by using Java-based bookmarks that enables you to copy text from websites and places it on an online clipboard for pasting on another website or use in an email. Likewise, you can send text that you want to copy & paste to a specific email address so that you can be sent a link to a specific site where you can access your text online for later usage. No need to download an app or to jailbreak your iPhone. Pretty good, right? Unfortunately, there have been incidents reported that emails were being sent to the wrong persons including some personal information (read: email address and other details included in an email header).

According to Jed Schmidt, the creator of Pastebud, the directions weren’t clear enough which led to people copying text to the wrong email address for later deliver to random individuals. I’m not too sure how one can make such a mistake, but this just goes to show that if you don’t read the instructions carefully, you could be compromising your own personal security.

[product via gizmodo]

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