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[Portly_Giraffe]

And another one bites the dust ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06...s_nebuad_plan/

[AlexanderHanff]

Well what a wonderful day. The busiest day for NoDPI yet with over 1500 unique visitors and over 5000 page views. Also the front page article on Digg, amazing success with the fundraising and now another company freezes out NebuAD.

I only went to bed for a few hours and I come back to all this.

Thanks EVERYONE!

Alexander Hanff

[Privacy_Matters]

Originally Posted by Privacy_Matters

URGENT: Can someone please post a cookie that refers to 'digg' - I need to campare.

Preferably a VM Customer - or just any ISP

Ok in fact any cookie from any of the following sites:

pcadvisor.co.uk
csmonitor.com
independent.co.uk
pcpro.co.uk
telewest.co.uk
iii.co.uk
thesun.co.uk
bskyb.com
digg.com

If you prefer - please PM me.

Hey Guys

Can anyone NOT with VM, BT or Talk Talk please PM the above.

[phormwatch]

Wow! Great news about the Fundraising, Alex!

In case anyone missed it: The Fundraising quota for the protest has been reached!

[Wildie]

oops to late never mine see reg link above.

[phormwatch]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff

Well what a wonderful day. The busiest day for NoDPI yet with over 1500 unique visitors and over 5000 page views. Also the front page article on Digg, amazing success with the fundraising and now another company freezes out NebuAD.

I only went to bed for a few hours and I come back to all this.

Thanks EVERYONE!

Alexander Hanff

Just beat me too it.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Portly_Giraffe

And another one bites the dust ...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06...s_nebuad_plan/

Good. Data pimping would impact on the value of the internet as a knowledge resource and could castrate free-thinking. We cannot allow our books to be burnt. We must fight Phorm on the beaches .

[Privacy_Matters]

Hey Guys

Some of you will be wondering why I've been asking for cookies - well firstly to make sure I'm not going mad!!!!

I found a pattern with Cookies - namely alot of my cookies have the name WSS_GW or starting with DM..... . Also to note, the domains, ie y.digg.com is not part of digg etc. Also the Expiry dates are ALL from the 20th June to 30th June 2009. The domains affected will show on your PC as [letter].domain.prefix

I've found where these cookies resolve to - ns-vip3.hitbox.com which is part of the Omniture Network.

Why am I getting their Cookies - and now why are YOU (now confirmed) getting their Cookies?

[phormwatch]

Originally Posted by Privacy_Matters

Hey Guys

Some of you will be wondering why I've been asking for cookies - well firstly to make sure I'm not going mad!!!!

I found a pattern with Cookies - namely alot of my cookies have the name WSS_GW or starting with DM..... . Also to note, the domains, ie y.digg.com is not part of digg etc. Also the Expiry dates are ALL from the 20th June to 30th June 2009. The domains affected will show on your PC as [letter].domain.prefix

I've found where these cookies resolve to - ns-vip3.hitbox.com which is part of the Omniture Network.

Why am I getting their Cookies - and now why are YOU (now confirmed) getting their Cookies?

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/3543/hitbox.htm

I'd suggest you install NoScript and CookieSafe to block and control Javascript and Cookies, respectively.

[XBNM]

Seems like i have one a.pcpro.co.uk starting with a DM expiring on the 24th June 2009

[Wildie]

nowt like them in my cookie list

[Portly_Giraffe]

Originally Posted by phormwatch

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/3543/hitbox.htm

I'd suggest you install NoScript and CookieSafe to block and control Javascript and Cookies, respectively.

Omninet caught being sneaky:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...cs3-users.html
Anyone for 192.168.112.2O7.net (note the capital O instead of a zero)?

But of course you can always opt out
http://www.112.2o7.net/optout.html?o...1&locale=en_US
by installing a cookie ... a bit like déjàvu all over again.

[AlexanderHanff]

Well since we managed to exceed the level of funds we needed to cover the costs of the protest I have decided to put some of the excess into some T-Shirts for the event. So if anyone can come up with some nice designs I will get them printed up next week. Obviously if the designs are created as vector graphics it would be ideal as they will then scale losslessly for printing.

Alexander Hanff

---------- Post added at 02:00 ---------- Previous post was at 01:03 ----------

I also received an email today from Lilian Edwards (Chair of GikIII), my abstract has been received and I will find out if it has been accepted by August 1st. If the paper (my dissertation) is accepted I will be attending GikIII in September (25th-26th) and taking part in the work shops. This would be a prestige event to take part in and would bring this discussion to the forefront with very reputable academics, so fingers crossed eh?

Details of the event are here:

http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/

Although it should be noted that the dates on the web site don't match the dates in the email I received today, but I will confirm the date in the next couple of days.

Alexander Hanff

[phormwatch]

The UK newspaper The Independent today had an article in the 'Extra' section titled: 'Does the internet know too much about us'? The article can be found on-line here:

http://tinyurl.com/67v2ug

I haven't read it yet. A quick search for 'Phorm' returns nothing.

I am off to read it now, but I thought I would mention it, as the Indy may be ripe for letters regarding Phorm after writing a piece of Internet Privacy.

---------- Post added at 02:48 ---------- Previous post was at 02:21 ----------

OK, I suggest anyone who is thinking of writing to the Indy first read the article. It is actually quite dismissive of privacy concerns. It argues that total transparency can be empowering. Unfortunately, it is full of hypotheticals about ways that 'total transparency' might be a good thing without even barely mentioning the myriad ways in which it can be dangerous.

[popper]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHanff

I reinstalled my system last week and haven't set up apache yet, the paper is available on https://nodpi.org/documents/phorm_paper.pdf though.

you should give http://partitionlogic.org.uk/ a try, its a free LiveCD.

so you wont need to mess around next time if you make a backup and need/want to get back to that fully working state again in a few minutes.

that mirror thread is filling up with data now, lets hope some people get informed and act ....if it stays on the top of the page and visable through use OC.
http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=44898