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Phorm/BT in the news

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13015194

Looks like BT escaped prosecution again, tbh l wondered why they were even bothering to waste tax payers money on something they wouldnt do anything about anyway...

the CPS has proved they dont care, their logic is that because no one suffered loss or got hurt... um regardless of the lack thereof of loss or even hurt, its still a breech of "confidentiality" which should be punishable, after all if l was to do something similar then l would likely be taken to the cleaners for it because lm not like those deep walleted hypocrites who would likely throw the book at anyone else who tried to do something similar where they could not.
 
If you or I had carried out this, we would already be in jail, BT can afford expensive lawyers, the CPS cant be bothered to fight expensive cases when there are plenty of easy kills out there.
 
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lm pretty sure there are too many conflicts of interest in high places who let them get away with it.
 
the CPS has proved they dont care, their logic is that because no one suffered loss or got hurt...

Seems so. By that logic, is it OK to drive drunk as long as you don't hit anything or anybody?

(By the way I'm not condoning that either!)
 
*cough*

We were actually the first to break this news :) but do by all means link to the BBC instead lol.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/20...ustomer-privacy-invasions-possible-today.html

Anyway, whatever your thoughts on the Phorm technology, the reality is that UK law was and still is extremely contradictory (until the changes go through.. but I doubt that'll be enough to stop all future problems# and allows the issue of "consent" to be abused and twisted. Some other UK laws, away from RIPA, are a bit clearer but they all end up conflicting with one another.

Mobile operators have been using similar DPI for awhile but so far they've only done it to help filter out pornographic content. You also have to be very careful with this because ISPs do need to intercept traffic in more generic ways in order to filter spam or viruses from emails etc.

I personally would never pick an ISP that intercepted my web browsing like TalkTalk or Phorm did. I want to be able to develop web systems and test them online without fear of related and sensitive URL data being sent to a third party in China that's run by their military. Seriously, it doesn't take much for that data to be abused and thus I would not consent to it. Now I doubt they could do much with ISPreview.co.uk lol but what if you're a government employee doing the same or work for a big company etc.

According to many of those that are in favour of it, it's all fair game unless your entire website is behind a secure https connection. That's just not practical, HTTPS has its uses but how many website use it for everything? Not many because there are all sorts of problems with that (e.g. cookie storage for active login processes, extra CPU power etc.).

It's a bit like saying; if you leave your front door unlocked then that means you consent to being burgled. Well no, burglary is still a criminal offence, door unlocked or not; nobody has the right to enter your home without your permission, the law doesn't change just because it's unlocked while you are in the garden etc.
 
didnt notice the article :D been pretty busy up till the last couple of days and havent had the time to read the usual articles l normally find interest in lol, but l totally agree with your logic mark.

being a webmaster myself, l dislike the idea some third party could be acquiring information l dont want them to have, after all my websites administration sections be they under https or not are none of their business!
 
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I'm going to make it a lot easier to scan over all of our recent news articles in the next CMS ;) .
 
l think the main issue or should l say interest would be to have like subsection links, a good example would be the BBC news website.

to be honest the only topics l find of interest are the ones about the DEA and local information (like exchange upgrades/new tech) so it would be pretty interesting to have some articles sectioned in such a way similar to tagging threads as well as most viewed/commented article for a particular week or month.
 
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