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Originally Posted by R Jones
Its not just what is going on inside the Phorm/Webwise/FASTHOSTS equipment that BT can't control and don't understand. They don't even tell each other what they are up to within BT itself. I think that the best form of information for BT support staff or other staff is to subscribe to a wire service, to pick up the press releases.
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Well as neither a BT customer nor employee I can only take your word for it! But my general point is that all this talk about what fields they will or won't scan, or whether they will look inside cookies, etc., is pretty arcane. There is no way for a webwise customer to validate anything they are told, and no licensing mechanism to verify that they only do what they say they will or that there will not be accidental or deliberate function creep. And there is no specification for an 'acceptable' amount of interception in RIPA, save for the clauses on bilateral consent, and that essential to provide the service. Everyone enjoys phorm-bashing - and why not, they deserve it! - but it is the ISPs who are planning to do the dirty on their customers and it suits them to retain a certain amount of ignorance or even to mis-represent how phorm works so that they can point the finger of blame if the going gets tough.