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Originally Posted by ImaJack
I seem to remember in the distant past in this thread (at least I think it was here) a poster putting forward TOR- Anonymity online as one way of escaping being profiled. I think also it was debunked.
Can someone confirm whether or not TOR would work and if possible an explanation why (if true) it wouldn't.
I am trying to raise awareness on an airline based message board which obviously has many aircrew members- good people to have onside I think. Being IT useless I need some help!
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TOR would work, in so far as your communications cannot be traced back to you. However, at some point, there needs to be what's called an 'exit node', which means that at some point, an unencrypted request to a website needs to be made. If Phorm has its spyware software on the ISP on which this request is made, then it can be intercepted.
However, I don't see how that would be profitable for Phorm or any OIX partner: lots of different requests from many different people will come from the same exit node, therefore the targeted ads will be completely useless.