Switzerland is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 network-monitoring utility developed and released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...

. Its goal is to monitor network traffic between two systems running Switzerland to see if the user's internet service provider

Internet service provider

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 is violating network neutrality

Network neutrality

Network neutrality is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the Internet...

, like Comcast does with the BitTorrent protocol.

Switzerland was featured in the Technology section of an issue of New Scientist

New Scientist

New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine, which since 1996 has also run a website, covering recent developments in science and technology for a general audience. Founded in 1956, it is published by Reed Business Information Ltd, a subsidiary of...

in August 2008.

External links

• Electronic Frontier Foundation