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Originally Posted by rryles
Here is my attempt at a layman's guide to traceroute. It omits many details, to the point of being technically incorrect, but hopefully not in a way that matters.
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Very helpful. Thanks. Can someone now explain what a proxy does please, and why they are used?
Btw someone on the BT Beta Webwise forum posted the following to The World at One, quoted here with permission. If more did the same, in the context of all the current publicity re ISPs and file-sharing it might help raise awareness of phorm/Webwise:
<B>Comments: Isn't it very hypocritical that whilst major ISPs are prepared to respect and protect the copyright of musicians and record companies, they are proposing to implement a scheme called Webwise devised by a company called Phorm, that has a history of peddling spyware, that will intercept the data that private individuals input in the course of their browsing, a sceme all dressed up to look like an anti-phishing package, but which will in reality engage in multiple browser redirects by stealth, and will compromise the copyright of material that belongs to millions of website owners?</B>
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