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Originally Posted by icsys
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My message to the BBC.
With all the talk of BT starting trials again with the company Phorm using a product called Webwise. This is going to get confusing to people and the BBC could end up being accused of spying on people who are novices with Internet and PC.s.
Your Webwise is to teach people how to use IT related applications safely we use this with children in school where I used to work.
Phorm webwise is more a targeted adverts platform that ISP's like BT are trying to market as an anti phishing safety. The company Phorm if you check back in their history used to be called 121media. A malware/spyware company that placed rather nasty rootkits on unsuspecting PC's. There is talk that Phorm are about to rebrand as Webwise. For the safety of children and novices this needs to be stopped. It is the novices that Phorm will harvest the most info by piggy backing their every click over the internet, forging cookies and pretending to be the website you requested. They use a layer 7 redirect 4 times before the customer arrives at your website if they requested the BBC.
Please help those very people who need this most and defend your webwise name.
Regards