Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic for advertising?

[Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:47:22PM +0100, Simon Lockhart wrote:
> There's a company called Phorm (www.phorm.com) trying to do this in the UK,
> running some trials with some of the large broadband providers.

Phorm has been linked to the Russian Business Network (RBN), which
is unsurprising given that Phorm is in the spyware/adware business.
For a particular insightful writeup, please see:

        Some notes from the Phorm sales pitch
        http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=489948&cid=22777122

---Rsk

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