Pasting passwords blocked

[deanord]

I get notified of updates to this thread (even thought I no longer use TurboTax) because I ran into this issue years ago and posted to this forum).

I can't believe that Intuit has still not addressed this artificial limitation.  I think that some developer believed that they were improving security, when in fact they weaked it.

For this reason, I switched to HR Block 3 years ago.  It's cheaper, does the job just as well, and lets me paste my complex passwords.

[dsmith5010]

Here's a good one! TurboTax (desktop) asked me to login this morning so I can import some banking transactions. Intuit ALLOWED me to COPY / PASTE my username and password INTO THE PROGRAM!  To me, that seems like a inconsistent and somewhat hypocritical stance about disallowing copy/paste for financial institution imports.

[RoboMWM]

No, this is not a security issue. This highly discourages the use of randomly-generated passwords and secure password managers. Please, at the minimum, forward this feedback with this information to the developer team.

[cosnerr]

I found a solution!

Copy your complex password into the Clipboard using the familiar CTRL-C.  However, you should copy from the clipboard into TurboTax using Win-V (instead of the familiar CTRL-V).  This works!!!

I am using Windows 11, but as I recall the Win-V option works in Windows 10 also.  Further, this allows you to copy multiple items into the Clipboard, and when you enter Win-V it will give you a list of the items in the Clipboard, and you select which one to paste.

I did not come up with this, I saw this suggestion in a different forum where someone was having the same problem.

[trombaloney]

What's really dumb is that the vulnerability for the clipboard hijack is in the "copying."  Once it's in the clipboard, it's vulnerable.  People are going to copy before they figure out they can't paste.  So the whole point of preventing the pasting is mostly pointless.