Talk Talk's new security system: Good thing or Spyware?

**Stuart** · 26-07-2010, 11:47

One of the ISPs associated with Phorm has come up with a new way to monitor their users.

They are trialling a system that logs which IPs their visitors are using, then checks them against a blacklist of known bad IPs. It also stores a "whitelist" of known safe Ips.

As with BT and Phorm, they claim that no personally identifiable information will be collected, although as El Reg notes, the relevant laws do classify URLs (which are passed) as personally identifiable information.

While the system, when it goes live, will apparently be opt in, they are, at the moment, scanning all IPs that all their users visit.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07...lk_stalkstalk/

So, is this a good thing (anything that slows the spread of trojans and viruses must be good, musn't it) or bad?

Charlie_Bubble · 26-07-2010, 12:45

Couldn't care less. I wouldn't use Talk Talk as my ISP for a whole number of reasons before this one.

haydnwalker · 26-07-2010, 13:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

Couldn't care less. I wouldn't use Talk Talk as my ISP for a whole number of reasons before this one.

Well said...and very much seconded.

**Stuart** · 26-07-2010, 16:35

You can bet that if Talk Talk make a success of this, other ISPs will try it as well. This is why I got so involved in the Phorm debate despite being with an ISP that had not committed to using it.