Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 27-04-2008, 02:50   #4940
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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 Digbert View Post
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?
Well this is where the Layer 7 technology comes into play, it strips the webwise part of the cookie out before the user is connected with the requested web site.

But as has been mentioned several times, it is very easy to circumvent this simply by using https to parse the cookie and get the Phorm UID, since the DPI kit ignores https the UID doesn't get stripped from SSL based communications.

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