Phorm and Cookies

[Chris Edwards]

Ian Batten wrote:

| So I don't believe my BT residential broadband connection is hijacking either
| port 25 or port 53.

OK for BT.  Other ISPs have (or have done in the past) hijacked port 25 or 
port 80 with transparent proxying.


John Lamb wrote:
  
| AOL block outbound traffic to port 25 from their ADSL subscribers to
| all but their own servers - they permit outbound authenticated SMTP on
| port 587 though.
|
| http://postmaster.aol.com/faq/port25faq.html

Yep - modern times.


| Presumably this is because the spam-bots aren't using port 587 quite
| yet. Can't be long though...

Not quite - port 587 email normally requires authentication 

(unlike port 25).

See RFC 5068.