Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 12-05-2008, 00:58   #6353
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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 BadPhormula View Post
You're right there are 10s of millions of potential victims for Phorm(and Phormlikes) and these people may not be able to defend themselves with a raft load of encryption techniques many of us take for granted. But end-to-end encryption is secure and reliable via SSL/TLS and it is very simple to use and built into most browsers. People need to be educated in the value of their privacy and what reliable systems they can use to secure that privacy, because when Phorm is defeated there will be another threat along similar line to Phorm just around the corner. More servers need to adopt HTTPS as standard until such a point there will be nothing left for Phormlikes to read.

So if you like the problem isn't the clients side, it is the server side. Eventually people that run servers will move over to HTTPS because there client/customer/readership will demand it.
Yes but the problem with Tor is that it isn't end to end encryption. The exit node is open to all sorts of abuse of equal severity to Phorm (including DPI).

I agree HTTPS is the way to go, but perhaps pressuring browser developers to include OpenCA support as an authentic CA would be better than just switching to Tor. Then SSL will be available to everyone for free.

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