Re: [tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Roger Dingledine <arma@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Check out
> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
> The number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since August 19:
> And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data -- it appears that
> there really are twice as many Tor clients running as before:
> https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#dirbytes
>
> There's a slight increase (worsening) in the performance measurements:
> https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html
> but it's hard to say if that's a real difference. So while there are a
> bunch of new Tor clients running, it would seem they're not doing much.
>
> Anybody know details? It's easy to speculate (Pirate Browser publicity
> gone overboard? People finally reading about the NSA thing? Botnet?),
> but some good solid facts would sure be useful.

Too big a double in under a week for me to believe it's natural growth
based on news or some promo somewhere. I'd guess it got included
in some app. A botnet fits perfect, try a blog post and something
off to a white-hat list. Or its some sort of analysis/attack/flood
against the dirs.
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