[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Mark Miller]

Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> Pet names only solve the problem as long as users are not allowed to
> type URLs into the location bar.

Not at all. They can type any URL they like into the URL-location field. The 
issue is then, what is displayed in the Pet Name location field? Unless I have 
chosen to give something the Pet Name "www.xn--paypal-4ve.com" or 
"paypal.com", there's no URL I can type into my URL-location field that would 
cause my Pet-Name-based browser (e.g., the Waterken browser) to apparently 
display "paypal.com" in the Pet Name location field.

If I assign both "www.xn--paypal-4ve.com" and "paypal.com", and if my browser 
uses a Unicode rendered, then I have succeeded at confusing myself. What's a 
use case where I'd do this accidentally? If such a use case is sufficiently 
implausible, then haven't Pet Names solved the problem?

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     Cheers,
     --MarkM