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Originally Posted by Paul Delaney
"Peter Smith negotiated WOW!'s contract with NebuAd, but he said that these negotiations carried on for months and that NebuAd's practices may have changed since the two companies first spoke."
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that one of the prime concerns when Phorm first appeared inviting all and sundry to inspect their code which could easily be replaced with something completely different on the first patch / update! And so here we have a similar system running live where whatever was hammered out during lengthy negotiations prior to deployment suddenly doesn't mean Jack any more!
Is that scary or am I just reading to much into it...
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I don't think you're reading too much into it at all. Remember that the equipment Phorm want to put into the ISP's infrastructure is equipment that the ISP
cannot access, monitor, report on, audit or manage.
So neither the ISP nor any other independent (i.e. NON-Phorm) auditor can see anything that the box is doing, has done, or any changes made to the box's configuration.
As an IT professional I find that last point obscene. Allowing an unaudited, and unmanageable presence on a network infrastructure is unthinkable in my eyes.
The ISPs are actually trusting Phorm. That's the scary bit. If I said to any of the IT Directors I know "I want to place a bit of kit on your network that you won't have any access to whatsoever" I know what the response would be. And it wouldn't be pleasant!