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Woodgar · 17-03-2008, 19:47

I saw a little bit of breakfast news this morning on the BBC where they covered this.

They played a short interview with Sir Tim desparaging the whole phorm scam and followed it up with a quick chat with a person introduced as a "technical correspondent". On the whole, I thought he gave a good, none-technical overview of how the system was going to harvest all your personal surfing habbits and target you with adverts under the guise of offering phishing protecion. He gave some good examples of how this could easily affect your privacy, even though phorm claim otherwise, especially for those using a shared connection/pc. He pretty much said that he trusted neither phorm nor any isp that implemented the system.

The best bit came at the end, though, when he stated flat out that if BT introduced the system then he would change his isp immediately.

17-03-2008, 19:47	#1326
Woodgar Inactive Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 15	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] I saw a little bit of breakfast news this morning on the BBC where they covered this. They played a short interview with Sir Tim desparaging the whole phorm scam and followed it up with a quick chat with a person introduced as a "technical correspondent". On the whole, I thought he gave a good, none-technical overview of how the system was going to harvest all your personal surfing habbits and target you with adverts under the guise of offering phishing protecion. He gave some good examples of how this could easily affect your privacy, even though phorm claim otherwise, especially for those using a shared connection/pc. He pretty much said that he trusted neither phorm nor any isp that implemented the system. The best bit came at the end, though, when he stated flat out that if BT introduced the system then he would change his isp immediately.