The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s releases “Switzerland” a tool to detect violations of Net Neutrality |
| Published: August 2, 2008, 7:34 pm |
| Tags: social news, electronic frontier foundation, network neutrality |
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On the eve of FCC Comcast action for violating the FCC’s net neutrality principles, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is releasing “Switzerland,” a software tool for customers to test the integrity of their Internet communications. “The sad truth is that the FCC is ill-equipped to detect ISPs interfering with your Internet connection,” said Fred von Lohmann, EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney. “It’s up to concerned Internet users to investigate possible network neutrality violations, and EFF’s Switzerland software is designed to help with that effort. Comcast isn’t the first, and certainly won’t be the last, ISP to meddle surreptitiously with its subscribers’ Internet communications for its own benefit.” “Until now, there hasn’t been a reliable way to tell if somebody — a hacker, an ISP, corporate firewall, or the Great Firewall of China — is modifying your Internet traffic en [ Full article ] |
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