Security enhancement to require keyboard combo for selecting text from encrypted chat session

[venomtoad@…]

It is important to prevent the accidental copying of text from secure chat sessions to the clipboard due to accidental mouse clicks. I would like to see this problem solved by only allowing text to be copied to the clipboard when a keyboard combo is held. If someone would please implement this feature I would greatly appreciate it.

[misc]

I think this cannot be done, unless there is some extension on xorg side, or on gtk side.

[asterix]

the only solution I can think is to make the whole textview not selectable by default. Then set it selectable when Ctrl key is pressed, and make it back unselectable when Ctrl key is released. But this will make the whole textview unselectable, not only the encrypted part. Moreover I'm not sure it can be done, and even if it can be, I'm not sure a user will understand why text is not selectable.

I propose wontfix

[misc]

I think a x11 extension for this would be nice, but it has to be pushed to xorg folks first, and then every potentialy security sensitive software, be it gajim or any other software ( after all, a mail can be sensitive too ) would be able to mark text as "sensitive, do not place in clipboard", and we would be able to control this in a unified fashion ( ie, disable this for all, or never copy, or show a popup, etc etc ).

So, reporter, you should ask the question on freedesktop.org, and then, once there is a spec and support in gtk, ask gajim to use this.

[asterix]

in the mean time, I close this ticket