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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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If Phorm are prefixing a client side cookie with their Webwise UID, many cookies contain the client's IP address (e.g. vodafone). Surely this means that the user is no longer anonymous as the UID and IP are then linked, or have I missed something?