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Originally Posted by Chris T
Whatever the past misdeeds of Phorm and whatever their current merit (and I'm not convinced of that, by the way, I'm just being charitable), the fact is, privacy and freedom are two of the most jealously cherished attributes of the internet. Any suggestion of tracking usage, and worse, actually *using* the data thus collected, no matter what 'safeguards' are put in place, was always bound to lead to 'hysteria' as you call it. They should have seen it coming. Actually, they probably did, hence their signing up a megabucks PR agency to spin it for them.
I feel bound to point out, that any system which relies on human compliance for its security is flawed by design. The very fact that Ernst and Young *need* to check to ensure it's not being abused, demonstrates that is capable of being abused. And as surely as one person's stupidity can lead to 25 million child benefit records going astray, sooner or later that abuse, whether by accident or with malice, will occur.
Never underestimate the willingness of large corporations to resort to nefarious tactics when they think their bottom line is at stake. Sony and rootkits comes to mind - and were it not for the vigilance of one extremely accomplished blogger, we would still be completely oblivious to that.
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Well said I would also like to add my grievence.
I also in the camp a leopard does not change its spots.
I would never trust a company who admited to doing dodgy malware, rootkits to administer something of this magnitude in an angelic manner.
I simply dont trust them and firmly think they are scaring people to try make out there system is to protect us and in return we get there rubbish advertising. I really do feel there is lot porkies of its true intentions.
This so called phishing is preventable as long as we are vigilant.
Make sure the website is what it is by simple checks of the website before parting with sensative details. We dont need webwise or Phorm protection to do this and hold our hand with a smoking gun to our head.
If it was anti phishing protection why not VM setup a protection itself without dodgy companies inhand. Thats my ultimate issue with VM and Phorm are not being honest.