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Replace all the IP addresses by 127.0.0.1

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

You could have mentioned what the hosts file does :rolleyes:

tdadyslexia, the hosts file acts as a local dns and entries in it take priority over any you might look up from external dns. I hate saying dns servers, it's just plain wrong :)

Just in case anyone reading doesn't know where 127.0.01 is, it's home :)
As in the old techie joke 'there's no place like 127.0.0.1' or even
'there are 10 kinds of people in the world - those that understand binary and those that don't'

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

I guess No. 2 on your pet hates list is MAC code!

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

Joke Alert: K*nt Ergrutlu is pioneering the flying pigs business... did you know?

The name of the company is

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

Why dns servers wrong? DNS is protocol - Domain Name System.

Nothing wrong with Domain Name System servers.

This campaign is a joke. How many of you actually understand the technology and see how Phorm is actually taking good steps to stop a copy of everything you do being stored.

Added my voice to the survey.

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

Guys don't rise to it. This is obviously a new tactic by the PhormPRTeam!

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

Most of us understand the technology only too well.....the only people who know what phorm does is phorm themselves - includes you does it ;)

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

7 page whopper going out this morning to Ms Reding.

My mother doesn't get letters that long.

And my wife wants to know why I'm writing letters to a woman in Europe at midnight. :kiss:

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

Rubbish - All Phorm is doing is attempting to make money out of people's surfing habits. This is all they care about.

Also - This campaign is not a joke at all - do you honestly see everyone here laughing and joking about it?

You are entitled to your views but with such a questionable username would could ask that you have only come here to stir and cause trouble, which BTW, I will not stand for on this forum.

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

I understand perfectly how DNS works.. I could probably even write an essay on it. Not going to though.

What I don't understand is how someone storing details of people's surfing habits is somehow enhancing their privacy.

Yes, I know about the anonymising process, but this isn't as anonymous as people have claimed. At some point the system *does* link your "random" (note: Depending on the process used for generation, these may not be as random as you think) id with your IP. If it did not, it would not be able to serve you ads.

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Upon investigation this morning it would seem one person from the same organisation, not saying its Phorm or associated agencies, have come here to just spoil the poll. These votes have been tracked and have now been erased.

With the following now happening - I have now decided it best to close the poll, so thank you for your votes but the poll is now closed.

From day one of the poll - It said 95% voted Yes. It's been consistent throughout. The outcome of this and number of votes is nothing near what I expected. But the overall result is clear:-

Virgin Media Broadband Customers don't want Phorm.

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

Nothing new there Mick, Phorm appear to have teams of people monitor /. and Digg too to bury any stories which get posted there. I think that probably explains why their PR teams have been so quiet, they must have been too busy trying to block the news getting out on major tech sites.

Alexander Hanff

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

Only 7 pages - call that a letter? should have seen mine to ICO - now THAT WAS a letter. (Crocodile Dundee in New York)

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

OC many people also have old Fax/modems sitting around at the back of their desks forgotten, perhaps its also time to dig up that old FAX software and also use that option if your willing/wanting to put your thoughts down on real paper.

you can also walk into your local library and use their Fax machines for a few pennys if you prefer to do that, or simply dont have regular access to the web at home but still want to do your part.

By post : Viviane Reding
Member of the European Commission
BE-1049 Brussels
Belgium

Via e-mail : viviane.reding@ec.europa.eu

By fax : +32 2 299.92.01

BTW, does anyone know or been in contact with this Baroness Vadera
in the ElReg story.

if the Govt are willing to publicly back the toothless Ofcom when it comes to these big plans, why doesnt it also publicly step up for the UK interception for profit ,one way or the other!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/11/eu_regulator/
"Government backs Ofcom against EU regulator plan

The UK government is banding together with France and Germany to reiterate its opposition to the idea of an EU-wide regulator, so beloved of communications commissioner Viviane Reding.
The details come in a written statement from Baroness Vadera, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Competitiveness, who makes it abundantly clear where the British government stands:

...the Government have never been convinced of the case for a new pan-EU regulator ... You will be reassured to know that none of my opposite numbers in other member states, or indeed the views from the European Parliament, support the Commission’s original proposals.
....

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there you go , and they thought they had been forgotten by the Anti-interception for profit end users :angel:

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have we had any TalkTalk customers looking at their Cookies and routing etc , they did say they were going to totally seperate the opted-in users from the opted-out, so as not to touch the DPI kit and not get collected, but has anyone looked to be sure?

also any current quotes or new information from the TalkTalk executive or personel about how they intent to get around the inlawful copying/Derivative work , or perhaps pay the owners for the use of their datastreams....

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