[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[Tyler Close]

On Feb 7, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
> I agree it solves the problem of confusable URLs.

Great.

>  I can't get very excited about that without a solution to the problem 
> of how I realistically get hold of things to associate petnames with. 
> Currently, if I want to go to Paypal's site, I type it in - petnames 
> don't help me.

So the fact that the WWW does not currently support safe hyperlinking 
doesn't bother you? Your bank has a web site, but on the current WWW, 
it is not safe to follow a hyperlink to that web site. In my opinion, 
this is deeply broken. That petnames fix this problem is very important 
and exciting. Are you sure you disagree? Is the web part of the World 
Wide Web really not important to you?

I want to continue to delay the introduction discussion until we nail 
down the phishing part of the discussion, but I will get to it if you 
want to.

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