[cap-talk] Webkeys vs. the web

[Karp, Alan H]

Rob Meijer wrote:
> 
> 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/
>
There's plenty of evidence that most people don't parse URLs.  See http://www.deas.harvard.edu/~rachna/papers/why_phishing_works.pdf.  I know that I didn't see any danger in the URL until I looked a second time.

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