From Richard Clayton's technical paper on the Phorm system;
"29. If the user does not accept any cookies in the webwise.net domain then they will always be allocated a new identifier for every website they visit. This situation is detected by the Layer 7 switch and the IP address is “blacklisted†and future traffic is not redirected."
If my IP address is blacklisted by the Layer 7 switch and as a result my future traffic is not redirected, why am I still allocated a new identifier for every website I visit?
Also, does "not redirected", in this context, mean that none of the 307-redirects occur? Does my original page request goes straight to the intended website, and it's response comes straight back to me with no diversion to any of the 3 machines described in Richard's document?
I'm not a tech, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
On a different note...the lead article on the BBC Technology News site is about Phorm, and has the word "illegal" in the headline; the two links to related articles each have the word "illegal" in their titles too. Let's hope subliminal messaging is all it's cracked-up to be.
