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Originally Posted by HamsterWheel
Phorm is just a way of ensuring that Telegraph readers get to see relevant advertising, and not the sort of stuff that would be seen on sale in The Mirror.
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... by illegally intercepting private communication traffic between web site owners and web users (including users who have not opted in, and users who have specifically instructed their ISP not to process data for marketing), corrupting the integrity of that traffic with fraudulent cookies and imposter redirections, creating a valuable personal profile of the users involved, and most importantly thieving copyright web content without a licence obtained in advance.
I guess that would include the consent and content of the Mirror and the Telegraph too?
All this from a firm who it is alleged were responsible for spyware and rootkits, with a team of developers in Moscow, who conspired with BT to run a secret and also illegal trial of the system in 2006 and 2007 potentially profiling hundreds of thousands of victims without consent, and stealing web content in the process.
Its an interesting proposition, and superficially appealing as an idea, but there is a serious flaw in the plan. Because it is illegal it will more likely never happen (again) in the UK (or Europe for that matter).
And if it hadn't been for us meddling kids Phorm might have gotten away with it too.
If you have money to invest, SSL certificate authority shares are probably a wise choice. Because even if deep packet inspection is switched on, then I predict that web traffic will simply become sdfkjhlwrq fb987qw4p9 8ypg98yqwypq9243yrpqw e89ypsf9k jhawera w.k awecr.aa..kjh.akjs 9sf09 "£$"£AGAGW£QF"Q qweulaASDF hfli987aerih a£"$"£ asdfasd fa"£GSDHytrebrsse
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