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Originally Posted by Green Disease
Virgin Media have been a little too quiet for my liking in regard to how deep they are in with Phorm. From Virgins own site "we have run a small technical lab test on a private internal network, not connected to the internet". Interesting how they add the last 5 words. Not sure how much they would glean from such a test.
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Quite. What value would such a test present if it weren't consuming content from the Internet? I did ask them what content they used (with a view to probable copyright infringements), but they didn't reply.
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Originally Posted by Green Disease
If they were to introduce Webwise, they would lose all 4 services we have with them, even though it would cost a small fortune to move to other suppliers. I would make sure the whole estate knows about the scumware.
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Just a personal view, unless you act now to take the business away, I don't think they will feel the pain.
And look at it this way, if they do see sense, and you want to restore your services you always have that option.
I've been pleasantly surprised by my new ISP. Customer service and quality of services seems to be a big differentiator for the smaller ISPs.
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Originally Posted by Green Disease
Clearly BT have jumped in with both feet, and are tied into a least doing a large scale trial. They probably have already purchased the servers required, and are currently gathering dust somewhere. I have read I few comments about whether Phorm kit is still sat on the Kingston RAS. Has anyone asked them that question?
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If you believe Gavin Patterson of BT, this is the final week of the internet without spyware, before Phorm is switched on... for the third time. Of course, BT have been saying that since 14 February 2008.
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Originally Posted by Green Disease
I find it rather unnerving that the government seems to be turning a blind eye to Webwise/Phorm, there's something bigger afoot. I will continue following this issue, as I believe that Webwise and other similar projects will break the WWW.
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Have you seen the FoI documents on
Dephormation. If not you might find them interesting to read.
I still haven't been told by the Home Office, when they were first contacted about Phorm, who they were contacted by, and the details of the request and reply. How hard can that be? Its taken them 3 months, and I'm still waiting.