Actually, it seems like *it is* Phorm. They mention yourself as Phorm's representatives in Russia here: https://www.facebook.com/imarker.ru/photos/a.340885905946086.85421.332865510081459/905366306164707/ Seems like Phorm bought them at the some stage, and that tweet from iMarker founder says they fired him https://twitter.com/mberlizev/status/501487701124972544, also some info about replaced software inside ISP networks without their knowledge https://twitter.com/mberlizev/status/497329705163710464, another posts in Mikhail Berzliev's company ADEx FB mention takeover by Phorm https://facebook.com/adex.provider/posts/630807190348314 https://facebook.com/adex.provider/posts/630182937077406
Virilha: > It remembers me about Phorm at UK, BR, some other countries also. > > There is a firefox addon to detect / scramble / block this kind of > redirects URLs, generating random unique IDs to throw garbage on the > data the ISP collects. > > https://www.dephormation.org.uk/?page=2 > > But seems its not open source. > > --Virilha > > ----- Message from Anton Nesterov <[email protected]> --------- > Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:45:13 +0000 > From: Anton Nesterov <[email protected]> > Subject: Meet the iMarker, Russian targeted ad service which analyze > your traffic on ISP side > To: [email protected] > > >> How it works? >> >> ISPs install the iMarker equipment and mirror all user's traffic on it >> (Russian surveillance system, SORM, works the same way). Software takes >> time, URL and HTTP Headers from HTTP requests. Then scraper with IP >> 92.242.35.54 and User-Agent WebIndex follow every visited URL and >> analyze its content. All this information used to build a profile for >> user. They says that information is removed right after analysis, and >> software saves only result of that analysis. Their website lists that >> they categorize users by search queries, online shopping activity, time >> of visits, activity on social networks, keywords on visited pages, >> visited websites, social-demographic info, such as sex, age, marital >> status, and education level, and then they use that data to distribute >> users for consumers groups. Every user has some kind of pseudonymous ID >> with linked profile. >> >> It's also has an opt-out option http://www.imrk.net/status >> >> >> How many users affected? >> >> They says it's 38 million people all over Russia. Minister of >> Communication Nikolay Nikiforov said in 2014 there was 62 million people >> in Russia using Internet, 56m of them do it every day, so it's 61% of >> Russian Internet users. iMarker's website list Akado, Rostelecom, >> ER-Telecom, NetByNet, Qwerty, and TTK as ISPs that installed iMarker's >> equipment. >> >> >> How to check if this affects you? >> >> If you are a client of Russian ISP, you can check it here >> http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru If you own a webserver, grep the logs for >> connections from 92.242.35.54. >> >> >> How do check script works? >> >> It generate a random link and wait for 3 seconds for connection from >> iMarker's IP address. >> >> >> How long iMarker works? >> >> Company start work on January 2010, commercial sells started on August >> 2011. >> >> >> >> http://imarker.valdikss.org.ru/ — script that checks if your ISP use >> iMarker >> http://www.vedomosti.ru/tech/news/15669231/bolshoj-reklamnyj-brat — >> report on iMarker from 2013, says they are ready to provide free DPI to >> ISPs in exchange of user's data (Russian) >> http://sporaw.livejournal.com/347832.html — blog post quoting private >> mails from iMarker's crew (Russian) >> http://www.imrk.net/privacy — TOS (Russian) >> http://habrahabr.ru/post/247465/ — blog post about iMarker (Russian) >> http://www.imarker.ru/ — iMarker website (Russian) >> http://www.imrk.net/status — opt-out page (Russian) >> http://minsvyaz.ru/ru/news/index.php?id_4=44571 — Nikiforov's statement >> on number of Russian Internet users (Russian) >> >> -- >> https://nesterov.pw >> GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 >> https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc > > > ----- End message from Anton Nesterov <[email protected]> ----- > > > > > -- https://nesterov.pw GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc
