Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by warescouse
As a footnote to my last comment.
If Phorm were to go ahead, I don't think it would help the security services one bit. Everyone will eventually be using JAP and TOR and HTTPS sites when they are browsing and the security service will end up with an even more difficult job. Once everybody realises they are being tapped, everybody will react in many ways to this! All Phorm/Webwise is doing is making everybody aware of this fact.
I am surprised the powers that be do not realise this.
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Perhaps the powers that be underestimate the ability of the average Internet user to understand the technology (possibly because they have such a hard time grasping it themselves and have to rely on the likes of Kent to explain it to them)
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