Thread: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Old 12-05-2008, 01:19   #6355
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]
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Originally Posted by Phormic Acid View Post
No, Tor isn’t much to do with security, in the sense that most people think of the security of a network. By default, Tor doesn’t produce any logs that might be useful to the authorities. If forced to produce such logs, those running the node would probably just shut it.
Under European (at least) Data Retention Laws they are required to keep logs for a period of not less than 12 months. So whether Tor logs by default or not is not really issue, it would be very easy to force them to without even needing to change the law. And Tor logs have been seized in the past as I mentioned earlier.

The best way to defeat Phorm is HTTPS but unfortunately this is not cost viable for the majority of websites out there due to processing overhead and CA certificates. OpenCA have been working for some time to be accepted as a valid CA and as I said, if this happened across the majority of mainstream browsers anyone would be able to setup SSL for free without the user's browser throwing up a certificate warning dialogue.

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