I came across this interesting tidbit this morning:
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The three business tech risks you don't know about
InfoWorld | News | September 17, 2008 | By David Strom, IDG News Service
... Businesses had more immediate concerns about Comcast's actions since
it affected their home-based workers. "Comcast, in trying to block
BitTorrent, inadvertently was also blocking some Lotus Notes traffic,"
says the EFF's O'Brien. And at least one Canadian ISP has had a peer
traffic block that also affected business-related traffic.
...
The EFF has developed a test tool called Switzerland that shows what ports
a provider is blocking.
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Full story with links here:
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/08/09/1
7/38FE-tech-policy-gotchas_1.html
or here if the above wraps unusably: http://tinyurl.com/6dl3pd
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Switzerland Network Testing Tool | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Is your ISP interfering with your BitTorrent connections? Cutting off your
VOIP calls? Undermining the principles of network neutrality? In order to
answer those questions, concerned Internet users need tools to test their
Internet connections and gather evidence about ISP interference practices.
After all, if it weren't for the testing efforts of Rob Topolski, the
Associated Press, and EFF, Comcast would still be stone-walling about
their now-infamous BitTorrent blocking efforts.
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.
You can download the latest release of Switzerland here.
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Full page with download links here: http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland
Haven't played with it but it looks interesting and useful.
~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~
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