Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Think you may have read that wrong. This is a list of peoples investments that have phorm. i.e. people that have phorm also have vodafone.

This is not saying thet Vodafone have shares in Phorm.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

oops but interesting nevertheless

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

there is a large correllation between investment in ISP's talking to Phorm, and Phorm itself. Probably directors with lots of shares with insider knowledge.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Yep - 41% of Phorm investors also have shares in Northern Rock. Pretty clued up then!

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Its only people who have registered their portfolio on iii - so its a pretty small sample size - so I wouldn't read too much into it.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Close 1,450.00 -62.50 (-4.13%) 16:30 16/5/08

Period of Change .. Value ........... Change
1 week ............ 1,762.50 ... -312.50 -17.73%
1 mth .............. 1,487.50 ... -37.50 -2.52%
3 mths ............. 2,825.00 ... -1,375.00 -48.67%

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

you dont even need a closed unknown EXE app to do this anyway.
take a look at rebol (by carl of Amiga OS fame)scripting and you could even make a very quick nice GUI with rebol view on several OSs using the exact same script code.

take a look here for some working examples of rebol scripting
http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap...er=domain-HTML

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap...pt=ipaddress.r

and the tiny rebol view or core for your OS to run the scripts here
http://www.rebol.com/view-platforms.html

we might even see some of you scripters makeing your fancy GUI antiPhorm scripts ;) available here in the open....

its tiny, its stand alone, it's covered all the tcp:ip/udp/uncasting/ and even multicasting in a 600k xp(or many other OS) app, what more could you want ...:dozey:

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Hi All, I do not know if anybody has posted this already but here it is anyway. Slightly off topic but may be interesting to some of you. Keep up the good work! -
http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/256402.html

davethejag

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

You're absolutely right. But it's the 'All Your Base' bit that's the legend. Y'know like the Rolf Harris 'Stylophone' and KTel's 'Bobble-o-matic'.

Apologies all <end of OT>

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Posted in case it affects any Users Here!

https://knowledge.verisign.com/suppo...AD91&actp=LIST

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

If you're looking for transparent scripts to call random URLs to add noise to your account, I have written two - One in Java and one in Python. They are on the phormwatch blog:

http://phormwatch.blogspot.com/

I agree, though, there are problems with running a script like that, not least because it will take up unnecessary bandwidth. The best solution is to leave your ISP.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/antiphormlite/
Activist coders aim to deafen Phorm with white noise

Faking it for data pimps

By John Leyden → More by this author
Published Friday 16th May 2008 12:05 GMT

Updated Coding activists have developed an application designed to confound Phorm's controversial behaviour-tracking software by simulating random web-browsing.
The folks behind AntiPhormLite says this means actual browsing habits are buried in noise. The app, which is available free of charge, is designed to poison the anonymised click stream Phorm collects with meaningless junk, thereby (at least in theory) undermining its business model.
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Their business model already busted with the must be opt in, thanks to the whistle blowers.

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

Hi,
Thanks guys for all your hard work. As a result of the Phorm issue I've changed my ISP from BT to IDNet.

I've started a Wikipedia page for "Data pimping" (as it has become a generic term for what all these nefarious companies are doing) so please help improve it from it's humble beginnings (and link to it in as many Wikipedia articles as appropriate).

Wikipedia - Data pimping

Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
 

:welcome: Geosynchronous.

Two good moves; dumping BT and the Wiki page. Thank you.