[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Mark S. Miller wrote:
> Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> > Pet names would be a good step toward a solution of this problem.
> > However, i'm inclined to think that Unicode domain names are just
> > inherently insecure and should not be used.  Even if users learn
> > to identify sites with pet names, they are still vulnerable to
> > confusion if they look at the location bar, read the name there,
> > and type it into the location bar later.
> >
> > What do you think of this problem?
>
> How is it that Pet Names don't solve this problem?

Pet names only solve the problem as long as users are not allowed to
type URLs into the location bar.


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