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> Recall that shaping is implemented by looking at the contents of your network traffic to see if it belongs to a given application. We can exploit this observa
by votepaunchy 9y ago
> Recall that shaping is implemented by looking at the contents of your network traffic to see if it belongs to a given application. We can exploit this observation to “turn off” shaping as follows: we simply send the same traffic, but replace the original contents with random strings.
Is this accurate? My understanding was that T-Mobile and others throttle based on the source network since most streams are encrypted, preventing content analysis (which would also require significantly higher processing).
- wmf 9y agoYeah, there are a bunch of different kinds of net neutrality violations and this app only tries to detect some of them. DPI seems increasingly pointless from the ISP's perspective now that everything is encrypted, so detecting DPI is fighting the last war.