Fairly impressive if true - they must have already gobbled up tens of millions of passwords and other sensitive data that users had no idea was being stolen from their clipboard.
No, not because we're communists. Rather, this is an existential issue for HN: if we want to have a forum for curious conversation, we have to limit the amount of damage people can inflict on it in this way.
Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with.