Comcast and network neutrality and all that

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Gene Gaines" <gene.gaines () gainesgroup com>
Date: January 14, 2009 11:22:45 AM EST
To: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Subject: Comcast and network neutrality and all that

May be of interest.

The EFF's Network Neutrality testing tool.
www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland

Open source.  In alpha.  Command line.

Briefly, "...Switzerland is designed to detect the modification
or injection of packets of data traveling over IP networks,
including those introduced by anti-P2P tools from Sandvine
(widely believed to be used by Comcast to interfere with
BitTorrent uploads) and AudibleMagic, advertising injection
systems like FairEagle, censorship systems like the Great
Firewall of China, and other systems that we don't know
about yet."

Gene Gaines




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