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Originally Posted by Dephormation
What the h3ll.
If Phorm are monkeying around with client side cookie values set by applications... then if client side code uses those cookies to manipulate values such as counters or names or shopping baskets... The client side cookies are randomly going to be prefixed by 16 bytes of random guff that Phorm insert.
Think how that would look if you set a cookie with the user's name for example. Pull the value back in Javascript and display it... yet you find the name presented is "Hello webwiseuidsf4g2+/gdsHE32q5||Pete. Welcome back to this site".
If that's what Phorm/BT are intending to do, they will embarrass and shame themselves even more than they have done already. If that's truly what they are planning its simply madness.
That piece of text either cannot be right, or reflects very poorly on the competence of the technologists behind this.
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Dear f4g2+/gdsHE32q5
I reckon quite a few people are slowly starting to think that phorm/webwise and their 3 stooges might not have thought this through.
The recent financial paper suggests that phorm have been working on this system for seven years, which according to phorm, is the early years of the internet. Almost as far back as RIPA.
It could be that they are just tweeking the system for the upcoming BT trials but I don't think so. Lots of tweeking needed if a product has been designed wrongly over seven years. They may decide to delay things and it might be that they have finally twigged that there are 10,000 + sticks waiting to beat them. The numbers will only grow, exponentially.
Ho-hum, at least he got the money from the shareholders.