Hello all, Zooko thought I should share, so here you go.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: . . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 8:23 PM Subject: Re: [tahoe-dev] Fwd: Disabling clipboard access in Internet Explorer To: zooko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Zooko, I feel that, fundamentally, URLs are "names", and that part of the contract of a name is that it is public. People treat names as public accessors or handles in many aspects of daily life. Hoping that a name remains secret is to hope for an unlikely thing. For example, IE and Firefox print the URL of the page at the footer of the page when you print. Is that a bug? I'd say no; it's a reasonable feature that allows anyone in possession of the printout to find the original online. Therefore, as used by real humans, Tahoe will not be as secure as it could be. There are just too many ways for a URL to leak out, and even if you tell them carefully, people will not internalize the idea that Tahoe names are secrets. It's at odds with everyday expectations and behavior. IE's clipboard access, however, is beyond the pale, and hardly Tahoe's fault. Wow!! :( _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list [email protected] http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev
