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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. |
That drops a similar uid cookie on my machine too if I "opt in"
Content: 7oKkf/UOR/+7bpcdPKXaMg||
I'm a BT customer.
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Originally Posted by davews
Do you mean you are proposing changes to the already existing page on BT Total Broadband - on the URL you mentioned. That article has been there for a long time and has gone through quite a few changes, although not much in the Phorm/Webwise days. Surprisingly it is not even linked from the Phorm WP page, guess I can soon sort that out.
I have done a lot of editing on Wikipedia over the past couple of years. The normal rule applies - be bold and put in your changes and see what happens. But always to remember to follow Wikipedia policies and you will soon get put in your place if you start stating strong points of view or claims not backed up by authoritative references. I suspect a simple paragraph stating they have recently been involved in Phorm/Webwise and a link to the Phorm article will be enough, anything more will probably get stamped on. I know, I have been through all that, you soon find your place there...
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Yes I thought a small extra paragraph about the same length and style as the one on throttling/p2p. Seemed appropriate. And yes - most of the point would be to generate links to Phorm/Webwise articles. The article has none at the moment.