Update to lightbluetouchpaper.org blog article on Phorm
Alan
ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:27:22 +0100
> Roland Perry wrote:
> They also conclude with this bit of thinly veiled Google-bashing:
>
> "We eagerly await the EU Article 29 Working Party ruling on
> Monday and hope they'll agree with our position that users'
> IP addresses should be designated as personally-identifiable
> information.
>From the same folk who have apparently designed a system that makes a
consistent identifier (the user's Webwise UID from the 'webwise' cookie)
available to any web-site.
Florian Weimer noted the "hijack" problem in a post here yesterday and no
offence intended to him, but it is not arcane and wasn't difficult to spot.
That Phorm weren't already in a position to tell Richard all about the
virtues of their groundbreaking HttpOnly 'webwise' cookie with it's IV and
encrypted UID (or whatever), surely says something about their passion for
protecting the world's PII.