Hank

Still doing the same thing. Closed browser and started a new window. Odd. It loads the top left eyes image, the navigation tabs, the right hand navi (donations button, calendar etc) but nothing in the big white space in the centre (under the "Where will you be on July 16th" banner)

It just hangs with "Waiting for https://nodpi..." in the status bar and the green progress bar hardly moving at all.

This page loads no problem (all the text - absolutely fine - no delay): https://nodpi.org/2008/06/17/
This page does not load the body text at all, just hangs: https://nodpi.org/2008/06/18/

Anyone on BT Broadband not having this issue? Using IE 7.0 browser - Vista.



Alex: Great article on ISPreview

All: I got my letter back from the Home Office this week (my MP sent it on to Stephen Timms)

It looks very similar to the one already received by another member here - from the same Baroness Shriti Vadera, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business & Competitiveness. Not very reassuring at all and it repeats the Phorm spin...

"Many web pages, including for example search engine results pages, include advertising which may or may not be of interest to the customer. Phorm enables the ISP to replace these advertisements with others that are relevant to the customer's recent web browsing. This potentially means less irrelevant advertisements for the user and better targeting of their advertisements for the advertisers, for which opportunity they would pay their ISP."

(Clearly this is a standard reply as it does not answer the questions I posed in any detail at all)

"[We] can assure you that the Government is committed to ensuring that people's privacy is fully protected."

(By doing sod all when a national telecomms company interecpts their communication without their permission and without a warrant from any courts or legally permitted agency?)

"The ICO has published its view on Phorm on its website and I enclose a copy here."

(version 1.3 18/4/08)

She goes on to say that the HO has advised ISPs on how the use of Phorm might be affected by the RIPA. She says:

"RIPA does not in itself mean that all applications of Phorm necessarily contravene the act."

Now I think I agree on that. Not ALL applications of Phorm would necessarily contravene the act. No - quite right...

Phorm could write some nice little spyware type program which users would have to install. That would not break RIPA would it...

Go back where many think you came from K*nt, back to your "roots" LOL. Then we can all get back to our day jobs and I can finish decorating my house instead of this. Until you do, my house can wait!

NO to interception; interception using Phorm IS illegal under RIPA.

Hank