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How to check if your ISP manipulates your Torrent traffic

It is not unusual that your ISP limit the P2P traffic. As P2P file sharing traffic can constitute up to 75% of all the broadband bandwidth used, IPSs may “optimize” costs by limitting your Torrent traffic. How do you know if your P2P traffic is limitted? There is a tool, called Glasnost, that check if your ISP is manipulating your [...]
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Privacy Intrusions and Censorship From European ISPs

Several German magazines, like Spiegel, announced that the German government plans to start handing blacklists to ISPs in an effort to censor certain types of content, like child pornography. Also Financial Times reports that the UK plans to force ISPs to start collecting data on copyright infringers, making it easier for copyright holders to sue them. The [...]
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How Web Proxies Work

On SneakBoxOnline I found a nice picture that shows how a web proxy works. As mentioned many times before on this blog, a web proxy acts as an intermediate between your computer and the site you are trying to visit. When your computer requests a Web page, it is retrieved by the proxy server and then sent to your [...]
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IP Addresses Explained

Every computer has an exclusive number associated in order to be able to work properly and efficiently on the internet or in any local network. This exclusive or unique number is called an address because it makes possible for a computer to be identified, recognized by other computers and also to communication with them. This unique address is called an [...]
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