Phorm is a spamming and Spyware operation - formerly known as the
infamous 121Media - that used Spyware to deliver contextual ads, but has
since become even more infamous for developing deep packet inspection
wire-tapping services in collusion with BT, used to spy on Internet
subscribers and subsequently spam them with contextual ads related to
what they read on the Web and even unencrypted Email. Because of the way
in (and the point at) which this data is intercepted, no amount of
ad-blocking software is going to protect your privacy, because the
violation of your civil rights occurs at the ISP level.
The BPI (British Phonographic Industry) is the UK clan of an
international group of organised criminals, running a racketeering
operation to extort money from consumers for a snake-oil product called
"IP". The US clan is called the RIAA, and has been known to stalk and
intimidate 10 year old girls, in their depravity and desperation to
satisfy their greed. In the UK, the corrupt government, that is now
owned and controlled by these criminals, has coerced certain ISP's into
capitulating to their demands, specifically that those ISP's spy on
their subscribers; issue warning letters to anyone using P2P protocols;
and then subsequently terminate their subscriptions if they continue to
use those protocols.
So what is the connection between these two criminal groups?
Doesn't anyone else find it suspicious that half the companies that
signed up to the BPI's protection racket, are the same companies that
signed up to Phorm's wire-tapping?
[quote]
BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all
signed up.
[/quote]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7522334.stm
[quote]
Phorm, the behavioral ad targeter poised to track user activity on
Britain's three largest ISPs: BT, Carphone Warehouse, and Virgin Media.
[/quote]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/16/eu_warns_uk_over_phorm/
It seems to me that Phorm is about more than just government-edorsed
spamming, but is in fact the very tool that is going to be used to
identify so-called "pirates", and subsequently anyone else deemed
undesirable. How long before someone downloading a Linux ISO is branded
a "criminal", or dissidents expressing outrage against the government
are branded "terrorists"?
Phorm is the weapon that these criminal organisations and their
government lackeys will use to finally destroy Net Neutrality, take
control of the Internet, force everyone to use proprietary software
(including non-Free media) through access restriction, force everyone to
only read "official" news channels rather than impartial blogs, and know
every single aspect of your private life, right down to every penny you
spend and where you spend it. We will be slaves to a corporate
dictatorship. The reigns of democracy will finally be handed over to the
corporations, and people will be reduced to nothing but fuel, feeding
this totalitarian machine.
The only way to defeat this violation of your civil liberties is to
outsource the endpoint of your Internet connection offshore, outside the
jurisdiction of these criminals' control, since appealing to a corrupt
government is a complete waste of time at this point.
I recommend a company called Perfect Privacy, although there are plenty
other VPN providers to choose from. The Draconian "traffic-shaping"
measures implemented by my previous ISP (Tiscali) were sufficient
motivation to make me want to use these VPN services, but with the
recent developments of Phorm wire-tapping and the BPI's control of ISPs,
it is now no longer optional. If you value your Freedom and privacy at
all, you must use VPN services. Period.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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