diff --git a/NewCapDesign.md b/NewCapDesign.md index b6631ce..74b3220 100644 --- a/NewCapDesign.md +++ b/NewCapDesign.md @@ -63,6 +63,12 @@ established sense). To make them real, we need to: (including me) don't like long URLs, but I've never pushed anyone to explain the "suspicion" aspect. One comment in #217 says "smells a bit spammy", and a later one says "Spooks me every time". + * It's likely because it's difficult for a human to verify there isn't hidden information + in there, or a hidden URL, that they're sending out or visiting that they therefore + can't anticipate or intelligently control. When people see a long hex string, perhaps it represents + information that the person crafting it wants to hide from the person using it. + I totally understand the skepticism; however, in this case there's nothing to be done, I think. + -midnightmagic * Enable convenient cut-and-paste. If caps are too long they'll wrap in email. If they contain lots of word-breaking characters then you have to drag after you've double clicked (this is probably ok). If the word-broken