{"id":1368,"date":"2011-08-06T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1368"},"modified":"2011-08-06T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T04:30:09","slug":"is-your-internet-provider-net-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1368","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Internet Provider Net Neutral ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does your internet provider throttle traffic to and from legitimate sites because of favoritism ? Are they trying to steer you to specific sites by slowing down connections to and from those other sites ?<\/p>\n<p>Internet providers are supposed to be neutral. But of course how does someone find out when they aren&#8217;t ? They certainly wont admit to doing it and no technology exists to analyze their transfers. Right ?<\/p>\n<p>Well, researcher <strong>Dan Kaminsky<\/strong> has been working on a program called <strong>N00ter<\/strong> to do this. <\/p>\n<p>Basically it times transfers to and from sites using different methods and compares the resulting information to find throttling.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on this new program can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/andygreenberg\/2011\/08\/03\/researcher-releases-n00ter-a-tool-for-catching-net-neutrality-cheats\/\" target=\"new\">Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does your internet provider throttle traffic to and from legitimate sites because of favoritism ? Are they trying to steer you to specific sites by slowing down connections to and from those other sites ? Internet providers are supposed to be neutral. But of course how does someone find out when they aren&#8217;t ? They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,7],"tags":[511,634,646,648,650,955],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}