Phorm and Computer Misuse Act

Ian Batten ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:00:11 +0000


On 21 Mar 2008, at 20:49, James Firth wrote:
>
> If Phorm were to place a cookie in another domain owner's namespace,  
> then
> there is a risk, granted a small risk, of an overlap.  My premise is  
> that
> the domain owner can reasonably expect to have full control over every
> cookie name under their own domain.  On the small chance the real  
> domain
> owner wants to use it, for whatever reason, then it will break
> functionality: 3(2)a,b,c CMA satisfied?

If I trademark the name of my website, isn't anyone placing a cookie  
in my name at risk of ``passing off''?

ian