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Originally Posted by vicz
In defense of Alex Brown if you look back thru the VM and BY newsgroups he has consistently been evenhanded and professional in his posts, especially given the difficult position he finds himself in,
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As the technical architect I would expect him to have overall responsibility for the technical due diligence on Phorm... he is responsible for approving the shambolic technology that is Webwise.
For VM to publish statements announcing that they plan to deploy Phorm, you'd assume the technical (and commercial/legal due diligence) had been 'signed off'.
And further, Nov 2006 Alex explicitly denied that transparent proxying was operating on the BY network (I have his post for reference).
When I query their relationship with Phorm in 2008 Virgin Media tell me that the problems I reported were due to a transparent proxy which was removed in 2007 (conincident with the BT trials). But see above, that proxy didn't exist, or did it?
If it does turn out that VM were trialling Phorm, it will be very hard to reconcile the statements Alex has made.