My first post. You are all doing such a good job with this. I haven't posted because I'm not a resident in the UK. I'm an Australian who has been following the Phorm story since February when I found that OIX resolves to our Telstra. Telstra is Australia's own privatised BT, except that Telstra have an almost monopoly control over many Telecommunications function.
I'm an experienced malware remover and I was very familiar with the removal procedures used for ContextPlus, PeopleonPage and the Apropos rootkit.
I cannot conceive of anything worse than using Deep Packet Inspection for the sole purpose of serving advertising,
advertising, for Pete's Sake. This is the stuff of nightmares for malware removers and security people. You can do nothing to protect yourself.
I have read every post here and BadPhorm and every other place I can find anything. I've posted extensively about Phorm and deep packet inspection interception methods on dslreports.com in their Security and Privacy forum. Some of the comments are interesting, but in the USA they don't have the same attitude to advertising.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r200...al-Advertising
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r203...h-ISP-Fiddling
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r203...with-Web-Pages
I'm not in the UK, but my concern isn't any less. If the UK ends up with this, it is almost certain that Australia and New Zealand will. Our markets are smaller, but we have far weaker Privacy protection and almost no Data Privacy regulation of any kind.
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I tend to disagree, BestBuy is a huge "brand" in the US and it is in their best interests not to taint that brand (the same as it is for VM).
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Phorm and NebuAd wouldn't worry Bestbuy. They will be asking to talk to them I would think, if they haven't already. They are not known for any principled stand on consumer rights in their current business operations. If you're feeling brave you could go through Slashdot for some technical opinions of BestBuy. They are the Walmart of retail computer sales and repairs.
ISP customers should not be regarded as a product to be sold to the highest bidder.
Keep up the good work, specially Alexander. Well done on the paper and well done in the interview.