Patent ID: 8572755

Claim:
A method comprising: composing a data object by a source application on a computer, the data object indicating text or a picture, the text or the picture designated by a user via a copy or cut operation on the text or the picture, the copy or cut operation performed via the source application; evaluating, by the source application, the data object; associating, by the source application, trust information with the data object, the trust information including a flag indicating whether the text or the picture designated by the user was obtained from the Internet, the trust information further including a value that is associated with a scale of values and which indicates a level of trust associated with the text or the picture; receiving, by the source application, a request from the user to paste the text or the picture to a target application; and prompting, by the source application, the user for confirmation before pasting the text or the picture to the target application responsive to receiving the request from the user to paste the text or the picture when the flag indicates that the text or the picture was obtained from the Internet.