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

[grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> > 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.
>
> Or somebody's research experiment gone awry, or behaving predictably
> but that they didn't think a concern worth mentioning, or...
>
> Malicious stuff happens, but most of the time these things are
> incompetence or similar rather than malicious intent.
> Until we know more, it's important to keep that in mind.

That's what I meant, not real users, but some other sort of thing.
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