Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 09-04-2008, 13:00   #2688
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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 jca111 View Post
Hi all

I've just had a thought! Every one in concentrating on consent etc.

BUT I've just read Dr Richard Clayton white paper on how Phorm works, and I realised something (extract from the white paper).

"The Layer 7 switch will see that the request does not contain a Phorm "cookie" and will direct the request to a machine located within the ISP network that will pretend to be www.cnn.com and will return a "307" response which says, in effect, "you want that page over there". The page that will be directed to is webwise.net/bind/?<parameters>where the parameters record the original URL that was wanted."

The key is "will pretend to be www.cnn.com" (or obviously any other website you are surfing.

Would it not be illegal to pretend to be another company or person in the UK without that company/persons permission? Particularly for commercial gain?

Phishing is a prime example of impersonation of a company, so surely this is just another form of that?

Anybody know how I can find out if impersonating a company is illegal?
Yes, Fraud Act 2006 Section 2 ss1.a, ss1.b.i and ss5. Read all about it in my finished paper on Monday

Alexander Hanff

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Originally Posted by Ravenheart View Post
The ICO have amended their "green light" they gave on phorm last week.

the 1.2 version can be found here and a number of interesting changes

http://www.ico.gov.uk/Home/about_us/...e_and_oie.aspx

and a really intersting bit



Wonder if this is the reason for the hit on the share price
Nice In essence that statement makes it clear that the BT trials of 2006/2007 were a breach of PECR (which I have stated in my paper). So now we need to start a letter campaign to the IC directly citing their own press release and demanding an investigation of the BT Trials in 2006/2007.

The tide has just turned in a dramatic way against Phorm and more importantly BT and we need to jump on our surf boards and ride this all the way to ICO. I will post a letter template this evening.

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