EFF Releases Tool For Testing ISP Interference

Posted by kdawson on Saturday August 2, 2008 @07:49AM from the switzerland-as-in-neutrality dept.

Placid notes that the EFF has announced Switzerland, a tool for testing if your ISP is interfering with your Net connection (e.g. by resetting BitTorrent transfers). It's command-line only at this point. Of course the tool is FOSS, and you can contribute to it via its SourceForge project. From the announcement: "Developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Switzerland is an open source software tool for testing the integrity of data communications over networks, ISPs, and firewalls. It will spot IP packets which are forged or modified between clients, inform you, and give you copies of the modified packets."

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cool, just downloaded it by Jay+Tarbox · 2008-08-02 07:55 · Score: 0, Redundant

and am installing Python now and trying to get it running.
Re:mehh by v1 · 2008-08-02 09:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

does this deal with throttling, (delaying packets) or with modifying traffic? (forging RST etc) From what I read it doesn't care about how long your packets take to get there.

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