Ooops. My spelling and gemmar seems to have gone south. Much like shares in Phorm, it would seem, and unless Virgin Media see the light, they might go the same way:VM feedback newsgroups are full of people sharing the view of Sir Tim Berners-Lee in saying that they will happily ditch the ISP if they implement Phorm’s technology without a network or transport level opt-out (rather than the application-level cookie method that has been touted).

It seems the pressure is mounting: Phorm have agreed to an inspection of their source code: but notably they’re not making the code public.

Hopefully it will be all over soon: the ISPs will see sense, or Phorm will be declared illegal.

If not, I hope the ISPs with some sense are ready for more business. :-).

As already discussed here, the only way to ensure your surfing for lesbian midget monkey p0rn doesn’t get captured by Phorm if your ISP uses it is to have a friendly proxy on a non-phormed network and SSH or VPN tunnel your requests to there.