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Old 04-04-2008, 20:34   #2318
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Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797]

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and OC to the many other new voters above

i find this most interesting from a tech POV , not twice redirected as thought ,but 3 times...

so your datastream is going from a zero redirect, to 3 times redirected, nice and slow then..., is this a new form of STM LOL.
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2...ebwise-system/
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Much of the information was already known, albeit perhaps not all minutiae. However, there were a number of new things that were disclosed.

Phorm explained the process by which an initial web request is redirected three times (using HTTP 307 responses) within their system

so that they can inspect cookies to determine if the user has opted out of their system, so that they can set a unique identifier for the user (or collect it if it already exists), and finally to add a cookie that they forge to appear to come from someone else’s website.

A number of very well-informed people on the UKCrypto mailing list have suggested that the last of these actions may be illegal under the Fraud Act 2006 and/or the Computer Misuse Act 1990.
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