dns.sysip.net scary

Hope you don't mind me digging this old thread up but there is a significant update.

Mail on Sunday reporting a deal with BT and a few other ISPs and 'spyad' company Phorm.

I get the impression that the shenanigans from around July last year were just dry runs to prove to BT the power of user tracking.

I feel totally cheesed off about this as my suspicions have now proven to be true.

It's happening guys - BT and other ISPs are going to use tracking / monitoring technology to monitor users and to spoon feed ads.
 
The MOS article is not online yet but other papers have already covered this within the past few weeks:

Phorm has signed up BT, Carphone Warehouse's TalkTalk and Virgin Media to the service

It gives internet service providers a new revenue stream from their subscriber base and, by offering targeted advertising, ISPs and publishers can charge up to 100 times as much as traditional advertising that is based on content
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/02/15/cnphorm115.xml
 
Who knows. But the company behind Phorm have plenty of 'form'.

You only have to search for

sysip.net

and

peopleonpeople

to see their tactics.

The peopleonpeople campaign was one of the most sneakiest ever. It utilised technology to specifically get around ad blocking / anti-spyware products.
 
Bringing this to the top as a document is available which explains what happened in the 2006 javascript injection trials.

http://nodpi.org/?p=10

"121Media will take action (both technical and in public relations) to avoid any
perception that their system is a virus, malware or spyware and to show that in effect it
is a positive web-development"
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