[cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability

[John Halleck]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, David Hopwood wrote:

> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 22:42:55 +0000
> From: David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: General discussions concerning capability systems.
    <cap-talk at mail.eros-os.org>
> Subject: Re: [cap-talk] Firefox breaks the principle of identifiability
> 
> John Halleck wrote:
> > I know of users that have been fooled by  'paypal.somename.cz'
> > (I forget what the "somename" really was.)
> > And users fall every day for the "one url in the link, different one between the A tags)
> > trick.
> > 
> > All the solutions given so far appear to assume the user is paying attention and reasonably bright.
> > Nice assumption (possibly) for this group, but not in general.
> 
> Should we abandon improvements for users who *are* paying attention and
> reasonably bright, because not all users are in that category?

  No... just abandon the statement that it fixes the problem for
  any but those paying attention.

> 
> -- 
> David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>
> 
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