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Wikileaks - Phorm Crashes Browsers, Allegedly Broke the Law 113 Million Times

By DrewWilson

We have been following the Phorm controversy for some time now and now some new developments have emerged. These developments consist of a leaked internal report which suggests that Phorm broke the law 113 million times during the controversial trials. Wikileaks has freshly leaked internal report which says some very interesting things. Here's the Wikileaks summary of the report: The internal British Telecom report shows that the carrier committed at least 18,875,324 allegedly illegal acts of interception and modification during its controversial covert "Phorm" trials. The report also indicates that personal identifying IP addresses were likely used, despite BT previously assuring the public and ICO that no personally identifiable data was used.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on June 08, 2008 (boomark / email).