[cap-talk] Webkeys vs. the web

[Rob Meijer]

On Wed, April 1, 2009 20:01, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> Raoul Duke wrote:
>>
>> how far does the concern of users getting their hands on the web keys
>> go? like, can't i just do some form of "view source" and get them?
>
> I'm not concerned that they'll get their hands on them.  I just don't want
> users to think of webkeys the way they think of URLs.  Let me know if you
> have another way to achieve that goal.
>
> In SCoopFS, the webkeys are held in variables of the ActionScript program.
>  View source just shows the filename of that script.  I guess you could
> always run under a debugger, but I don't expect that to be common.

Wouldn't the visual lexical difference be sufficient?
People seem to understand not to go and unintendedly share an URI like:

    ftp://bob:S3cr3t@ftp.alice.com/foo/

Rob