[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Ben Laurie]

Mark Miller wrote:
> 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?

The use case is surely where you see www.xn--paypal-4ve.com first and 
assign that the pet name "paypal"?