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Stealing Phorm Cookies

2008-04-22 17:49:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Phorm targeted advertising system. You can see my slides here , and eventually there will be some video here One of the issues I talked about was the possibility of stealing Phorms cookies, which I elaborate upon in this post. I have written about Phorms system before , and you can read a detailed technical explanation , but for the present,...
 
Tags: phorm, cookie, phorm cookie, isps deploy phorm, phorm identifier, identifier, unique phorm, phorm system strips, system
 
 
 
 
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The Phorm Webwise System

2008-04-04 16:53:06 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Phorm learning how their advertising system works this is the system that is to be deployed by the UKs largest ISPs to pick apart your web browsing activities to try and determine what interests you The idea is that advertisers can be more picky in who they serve adverts to youll get travel ads if youve been looking to go to Pamplona for the...
 
Tags: phorm, system, phorm assumes, phorm argue, phorm system, extensive technical details, technical details, system anonymises, details
 
 
 
 
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Bad Phorm

2008-03-18 14:26:32 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Phorm, the company offering such a service as part of their Webwise product, have engaged with BT, Virgin, and Talk Talk for trials of the servcie. Read about it here . Personal security and privacy of data are not the only issues here. The BT spokesman said Phorm offered consumers two benefits. "Customers will receive more relevant...
 
Tags: phorm, system, webwise system, users, strongly suspect, real purpose, strongly, virgin forum, opt
 
 
 
 
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BT, Phorm, and Me

2008-09-08 06:23:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Phorm incident I was not involved with BT and Phorm, then or now. Everything I know about Phorm and BT's relationship with Phorm came from the same news articles you read. I have not gotten involved as an employee of BT. But anything I say is -- by definition -- said by a BT executive. That's not good So I'm sorry that I can't write about...
 
Tags: phorm, phorm incident, news articles, relationship, requests, issue, lots, executive, definition
 
 
 
 
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Twisty little passages, all alike

2008-05-18 19:29:56 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Phorm system worked and blogged about what I thought of the scheme. The document had been run past Phorms technical people to ensure it was correct, but it turns out there were still a handful of errors in it. A number of helpful people pointed out that Id misdescribed third-party cookies (which didnt matter much because Phorm specifically...
 
Tags: cookie, phorm identifier cookie, identifier, phorm identifier, phorm, phorm fools, phorm unique identifier, phorm system redirects, phorm system breaks
 
 
 
 
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Adding webwise.net into the CNI

2008-04-05 14:13:01 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...Phorm system works (see yesterdays blog post ) creates an interesting, and possibly unexpected, risk for the ISPs that decide to go ahead and deploy the system Quite clearly , web browsing from within these ISPs now depends on the correct functioning of the Layer 7 switch and Phorms Anonymiser machine. This should not be too much of a...
 
Tags: domain names, purchase domain names, net, dns, dns forgery issue, domain, dns forgery attacks, webwise, net domain
 
 
 
 
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End to end trust

2008-04-09 15:12:21 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...Phorm at the mearest suggestion that anonymity might be compromised. But I think it's time for this initiative and I'm not unhappy about Microsoft taking the lead - after all I'm writing this blog on a Microsoft powered PC and I'll bet of the millions of you out there reading this that the majority of you are doing likewise. So, good food for...
 
Tags: online identity issue, identity, internet anonymity, internet, scott, scott charney, current rsa conference, rsa conference, pass identity claims
 
 
 
 
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ISP Clickstream Betrayal Part 2 - The Double-Reverse Masquerade

2008-07-10 17:36:24 by Scott in Scott Wright's Security Views
 
...Phorm Inc. is doing to enable Behavioral Targeting for its advertising network that leverages equipment it installs
 
Tags: leverages equipment, enable behavioral, steve gibson, network, phorm, head, responsibility, explode, techno-geek
 
 
 
 
 
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