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3 Ateb i “Phorm’s deep blog inspection”
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Neges o’r prif swyddfa: ar un adeg roedd fy mlog yn Saesneg pan o’n i’n ceisio gwella fy sgiliau Cymraeg. Felly mae’r blogiad hwn dim ond ar gael yn English – achos mae’n hen.
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Hi Carl
Its not unusual for Phorm to respond to blog posts. To date they have hired no less than 5 PR agencies to represent them. It doesn’t matter how many PR drones they hire, though. To use the infamous quote from the US election; “You can put lipstick on a pig but its still a pig.”
The simple truth is that Phorm and their PR agencies have shown a distinct lack of honesty and transparency when it comes to dealing with the considerable criticisms of them and their technology. They insist on obfuscating the issues by claiming that you can opt-out of the system when it is impossible to opt-out of the interception and Deep Packet Inspection only the advertising.
Then they launched a smear site to attack and name their critics. Quite ironic for a company claiming their system is anonymouse and is a “privacy revolution.”
They have a history in spyware and rootkits and have yet to apologise for the misery they caused to thousands of people who were infected by their Apropos Rootkit and PeopleOnPage spyware. They claim they shut down that part of the business voluntarily but what they neglect to mention is that legal proceedings had been instituted against them in the US for this very spyware.
I tried to comment on your Future Music Labs blog post but that comment seems to have got lost so I decided it was maybe more apppropriate to comment here on your own personal blog.
You said you still have concerns. I am sure you would be welcome to join the debate and discussions over at one of the many campaign sites such as badphorm or nodpi.
Alex, thanks for your comments. The Future Music Lab post has had your comment and a few others approved. Sorry for delay, there are a few people using it and we’re just getting the systems in place.
You’re right to emphasise the spyware background, my correspondent had no comment to make on that…
Nice can of worms you’ve got there,
don’t get it on the carpet will you 😉