New Software Detects Web Interference

November 29, 2007 By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer

(AP) -- Increasingly worried over Internet providers' behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering.

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