Technological Solutions

The following technologies may be helpful in preventing Phorm/OIX from building up a profile of your browsing habits:

Check out a very exciting prototype encryption technology called Obfuscated TCP!

• Dephormation Firefox add-on: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/
• TrackMeNot Firefox add-on: http://www.trackmenot.org/
• SquiggleSR Firefox add-on: http://squigglesr.free.fr
• ScrabblePhorm Java and Python programs available here:

http://phormwatch.pastebin.com/f1ba5bd43
http://phormwatch.pastebin.com/f143224db

• Use Google Scraper: https://ssl.scroogle.org/ to make encrypted Google searches so Phorm cannot intercept your search terms.


• Encrypt and anonymise your web surfing with JAP: http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html or by using TOR: http://www.torproject.org/


• The creators of Dephormation have created some PHP code which dynamically tests whether a user's connection is with a Phorm-participating ISP, OR whether a user has a Phorm spyware cookie on their computer. An green, yellow or red image is displayed accordingly.

Readme file is here: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/server/cookie_test/readme.txt
Zip file of the code is here: http://www.dephormation.org.uk/server/cookie_test/cookie_test.zip