Phorm cookies

[Charles Lindsey]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:17:15 +0100, Nicholas Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net> wrote:

> Thereafter I found that "opt-out" cookies were regularly set on my  
> machine from related sites, which I was not aware of having visited.  
> Only now that I have also blocked "webwise.net" and "a.webwise.net" do I  
> find that the setting of these cookies has ceased.

Odd! That implies some Phormery is already operational. Do you use any of  
BT, VM or Talktalk to access the net? If not, then I would be surprised if  
they were opt-out cookies. Can you show us an actual cookie?

I just connected to www.webwise.net, and it gave me the cookie

PHPSESSID iam84lo8kv8t8pdc7g38gfm760

 from the site www.webwise.com (note .com rather than .net), but that is  
just a normal session-id cookie such as lots of sites will set.

Note that webwise.net, www.webwise.net, webwise.com and www.webwise.com  
are all the same piece of hardware, though a.webwise.net does appear to be  
something different.

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