[FLEX-24424] Linux: TextInput with displayAsPassword allows copying of text

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK 3.5 (Release)
• Component/s: mx: TextInput
• Environment: Affected OS(s): Linux; Affected OS(s): ; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 12/Jul/10 13:24
• Updated: 13/Jul/10 09:31

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an application (an AIR app in my case) and include a TextInput component with the attribute displayAsPassword set to true
2. Put data into the password field (type it in or do it programatically)
3. Notice the data is copyable (this is not the case on Mac or Windows). This is particularly bad because the behavior is often to copy on highlight, so when the field gets highlighted, the password gets put on the clipboard.

Actual Results:
Password is copy/pastable as plain text

Expected Results:
Copy/cut is disabled for password fields (including any automatic copying from field highlighting)

Workaround (if any):
None known. Users basically can't use secure passwords for fear of them being trivially found by copying text.