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Old 18-03-2008, 17:33   #1383
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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Originally Posted by Florence View Post
Well this is an interesting read hope you all have time to read it.

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?...8&cid=22777122

First paragraph to get you all in the mood.
OMG, I hope that's not a true technical account of the technology and the way it is going to work - that is really, really scary stuff. Any trust that I might have had in VM has evapourated, if that's really the sort of system that they are even comtemplating on installing into the VM network.

I thought quietly taking a "tap" of all our web surfing was bad enough, but actually tampering with the data stream by redirecting and forcing our web browsers to load extra html and code has got to be blatant criminal cracker thinking.

I am just stunned, the idea of moving from a 20Mb cable modem to whatever sub 4Mb ADSL connection doesn't look quite so bad if the Phorm profiling boxes are going to that to my surfing and who knows what other IP traffic!!
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