IP Democracy: Researcher Develops "Net Neutrality" Test Tool

As third party service and application providers grow nervous that broadband providers may shunt them off into second-class delivery lanes, security technology developer Dan Kaminsky has devised a new, free software tool that he claims can determine whether some kinds of TCP/IP packets are being treated better than other traffic. He is presenting this tool at the Black Hat Security Conference today in Las Vegas.

Kaminsky calls the technology “TCP-based Active Probing for Faults” and it’s based on the Traceroute Internet utility used to track what path Internet traffic takes as it moves from machine to machine on two different ends of the network.

He plans to post information on the tool at his web site http://www.doxpara.com/.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on August 2, 2006 5:20 PM to IP Democracy