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 No.30
 
 
and OC 

 to the many other new voters above
 
i find this most interesting from a tech POV , not twice redirected as thought ,but 3 times...
 
so your datastream is going from a zero redirect, to 3 times redirected, nice and slow then..., is this a new form of STM LOL.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2...ebwise-system/
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Much of the information was already known, albeit perhaps not all minutiae. However, there were a number of new things that were disclosed.
 
Phorm explained the process by which 
an initial web request is redirected three times (using 
HTTP 307 responses) within their system 
 
so that they can inspect 
cookies to determine if the user has opted out of their system, so that they can set a unique identifier for the user (or collect it if it already exists), and finally to add a cookie that they forge to appear to come from someone else’s website. 
 
A number of very well-informed people on the 
UKCrypto mailing list have suggested that the last of these actions may be illegal under the 
Fraud Act 2006 and/or the 
Computer Misuse Act 1990.