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Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Kulawiec)
Thu May 15 08:54:24 2008

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:59:03 -0400
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20080514224722.GZ10920@virtual.bogons.net>
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:47:22PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> There's a company called Phorm (www.phorm.com) trying to do this in the UK,
> running some trials with some of the large broadband providers.

Phorm has been linked to the Russian Business Network (RBN), which
is unsurprising given that Phorm is in the spyware/adware business.
For a particular insightful writeup, please see:

	Some notes from the Phorm sales pitch
	http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=489948&cid=22777122

---Rsk

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