Software to detect if your ISP is tampering with your Internet connection
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has
released software that will help users
determine whether their Net connection
is being tampered with by their
service provider.
An excerpt from Associated Press:
“People have all sorts of problems,
and they don’t know whether to
attribute that to some sort of
misconfiguration, or deliberate
behavior by the ISP,” said Seth
Schoen, a staff technologist with EFF.
The new software compares lists of
data packets sent and received by two
different computers and looks for
discrepancies between what one sent
and the other actually received.
Previously, the process had to be done
manually.
ISPs tampering with network users’
connection to crack down on P2P (peer-
to-peer) file sharing has been a major
issue this year. Last month, the
Associated Press in a nation-wide test
confirmed that ISPs like Comcast use
protocol-level inspections to detect
and kill P2P traffic.
Dubbed as the Test Your ISP Project,
EFF is developing software tools to
let users test their own broadband
connections.
The Software will be launched soon.
