[cap-talk] Webkeys vs. the web

[zooko]

On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Raoul Duke wrote:

>> Therefore, I will encourage people writing Tahoe frontends to  
>> leave read-only caps in the URL but to sequested write-caps behind  
>> some other user action, such as "click this button to generate a  
>> write cap".
>
> but isn't the problem then only slightly deferred, to when that  
> write cap gets out as text somewhere? what makes it clear that it  
> is a dangerous write app to somebody who is copy/pasting it?

I don't think this will be a problem in practice and I haven't  
observed it yet in my use of Tiddly-on-Tahoe.

How about you set up a blog on Tiddly-on-Tahoe and let me know what  
you think?  ;-)

Regards,

Zooko