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Old 05-05-2008, 09:48   #5722
Hank
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Re: A Plan of Action

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Originally Posted by Kursk View Post

When I saw your first list I though 'Good post'. Then I saw this one. Great post Kursk!

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Originally Posted by popper View Post
hmmm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05...ding/comments/
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Phorm allowed into the 'Anti-Phishing Working Group'

By phormwatch
Posted Saturday 3rd May 2008 19:59 GMT
You're not going to believe this, but the APWG:
http://www.antiphishing.org/index.html
Has allowed Phorm to join their ranks, as you can see here:

http://www.antiphishing.org/sponsors.html
I suggest people write to the APWG and 'inphorm' them about Phorms background and illegal activities:
http://www.antiphishing.org/contactus.html
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Looks like Phorm has "Sponsoring Vendor membership"

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Eligible technology and solution provider organizations may join the APWG as Sponsoring Vendor members, with unlimited membership for employee and contractors. This includes access to the APWG Work Site and working sub-groups, subscription to the APWG news and discussion newslist, eligibility to participate in APWG meetings and eligibility to access the Phishing Repository. Sponsoring Vendors receive a series of marketing/sponsorship benefits, including being listed as sponsoring vendors on the Anti-Phishing Working Group public website, posting whitepapers on the public website, posting corporate and solution profiles on the public website.
And they've paid $7500 for it. When and if we can get a proper defensive solution in place to combat Phorm perhaps we should distribute it and join APWG - A "Badphorm joins APWG" headline would be nice eh? If only a solution for Phorm being "in the middle with our ISP" was that easy...

Hank

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Originally Posted by R Jones View Post
Could you give a url for that please - I'd like to pop over. BT have been trying to keep Webwise out of the other forums and moderating pretty heavy handedly to do it. So I'd like to have a look before they can the posts.
Could have sworn you were there already RJ! But I guess putting the link here does no harm, none at all, whatsoever!!!

http://beta.bt.com/bta/forums/thread...ID=19874#19874

Hank

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I mentioned on Saturday that I'd had a letter from the Earl of Northesk. I did not ask if I could publish so I'll just paraphrase.

I have to say, the man is a noble man (no pun intended) - In my letter I did say that I appreciated he is not an MP, and that means he has no secretaries to answer the emails and postal communications he receives. Yet, from thousands of miles away he apologises for the delay and does indeed respond in detail.

He's certainly going to be pursuing the challenges which Phorm and the Government's failure to tackle the issues raised presents.

He is awaiting responses to two new questions he asked the Government as "QfWA" (Questions for Written Answers).

He's provided me with links to the best ways to check for these Qs & As, so when I get home later in the week I'll get them posted if anyone wants them.

Have to agree with some of the other posters here in the last 36 hours. The argument needs to be taken up via MPs etc and not with Simon Davies. Let's focus on them because parliament is where the power is...

Alexander: I read (I think in a paper from you) that we would follow up with Parliamentary Omburdsman complaints - when does that start, any detail on process for that - what has to be done/exhausted first?

Hank