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I’ve been asked couple of times recently about Phorm, NebuAd and similar technologies, so here’re some links to get you started.

The following two transcripts of some Security Now episodes from Steve Gibson of GRC (Steve coined the phrase ’spyware’) give a good intro.

http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-151.htm
http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-153.htm

This is the vendor that’s caused the most ripples… used to be called ‘121media’, if you know anything about spyware this will cause your hair to stand on end:)
http://www.phorm.com/

More links…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/phorm_roundup/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm
http://phormwatch.blogspot.com/

http://www.nebuad.com/

Online Armor gets Firewall of the Year from Computerworld Editor in Chief, Scot Finnie. Go here for the full article on Scot’s blog.

I just spotted an article written by Kevin Poulsen which talks about the FBI’s use of Spyware.