[Tfug] Cox and Port 25

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

Follow-up to this thread; 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

    "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.

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Angus Scott-Fleming
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