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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:40:24 +0000 Anton Channing wrote: > Has anyone else been following the Phorm > scandal? Where basically BT, Virgin Media > and Carphone Warehouse are going to (have > already started?) selling http logs to a > company called Phorm? > > Possibly other big ISPs also joining them > shortly. > > Phorm used to be involved in creating spyware > under the name 121 Media. > > I read about on The Reg: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_documents/ > > Basically, I want to find out if I need to > move ISP, whether there is anyway I can tell > if my ISP is already doing this, any way I > can tell if an ISP I think of moving to is > already doing this, anyway I can write a web > page that can detect this type of request and > inform the user they are being spied on? > > I have seen mixed reports on whether a https > proxy would be useful or not in this scenario. > Anyone able to give a definitive answer on > why or why not? > > Thanks in advance, > Anton Sounds like a job for onion routing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html