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Originally Posted by Wild Oscar
Steve Gibson at grc.com is heavily into web security, I wonder what he thinks about all this?
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We mentioned US security expert Steve Gibson back in April, he promised sometime he would cover this.
In his Security Now podcast for this week - Episode 148 at
http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm - he announces that he will be covering it in next week's podcast. He normally records it on Tuesday for release on Thursday (California evening time) and the links appear on his site on our Friday afternoon.
His short mention in SN148 maybe indicates he is not as up to date with the technology as we would like:
"Next week we're going to finally talk about the form system, the so-called "Phorm Webwise" technology which has really got people upset because ISPs that have adopted this are changing the pages people download from foreign servers. That's next week's topic."
"About the whole Phorm Webwise technology. There's a very disturbing new trend which is ISPs are actually modifying the pages their customers download. So when I go to a website and look at the page, an ISP has tacked on their own JavaScript, which is being used to monitor me and track me and profile me. Not a good idea."
Maybe a chance to contact Steve before he does the recording...
Dave