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- pigfister, on 12/14/2008, -0/+1It may be twice as fast but it's, many, many, times less private thanks to the spying DPI (deep packet inspection) that virgin use, have you heard about PHORM?
they are scanning every click you make, every password entered, every email sent including it's contents every msn/windows messenger conversation, every unsecured (https) connection or http request will be scanned by phorm and logged right down to your operating system auto update checks.
http://www.badphorm.co.uk
fta: So, what's all the fuss about?
Simply put, three of the UK's largest ISPs (Virgin Media, BT and TalkTalk) have decided to sell your private browsing history to an advertising broker. Yes, the entire content of every web page you visit gets sent to Phorm in real time, as you click. A personal profile is created, allowing Phorm to send you 'targeted advertising'.
Naturally the ISP's are not too keen on telling their users this, they'd much rather feed us all platitudes about how it'll help combat phishing and how the targeted adverts will be so much better than the random ones we see today. In fact, they didn't even announce it to the UK press, we had to find out about it from the New York Times!
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