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[LUG] Phorm?

 

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

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