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Originally Posted by lucevans
Sorry my post last night may have been a bit confusing: I actually went out of my way to see if I could get the webwise website to place a Phorm cookie on my system via my Virgin Media cable connection as follows:
I had to navigate through pages of badly-linked stuff on the site, but eventually got to the following page:
http://www.webwise.com/privacy/opt/in.html
where I clicked on the link called "Switch ON Webwise".
This dropped a cookie on my system called uid with the path /services and an expiry date of 4th August 2009.
The content of this particular cookie (which I have since deleted) was ZrUyKoAJTTeD6iXeivlOpA|| which I believe adheres to the format outlined in Richard Clayton's paper (Quote:"Phorm told us that the UID which is allocated to the user is a 16 byte value chosen at random. That is to say it is just a number. It is not, for example, an encryption of some data that might later be decrypted. The actual value sent on the wire will be base-64 encoded, so it will be seen by humans as a 22 character string.")
The website that my browser ( Safari) attributed to this cookie was a.webwise.net
All this was done over a Virgin Media cable connection via cpc1-pete8-0-0-custxxx.pete.cable.ntl.com
I hope this clarifies things for those who were worried. |
Confirmed, when clicking the opt in link I do see a similar cookie for a.webwise.net (i'm with BT). Interestingly, the opt out link just goes to the home page. To confirm that the opt out link wasn't doing anything at all I tried leaving the cookie in place then clicking the opt out link but after being sent to the home page the cookie remained, presumably leaving me opted in.
I also tried visiting a.webwise.net/services/ and got a 404.