Nurmi, Juha:
Hello, There have been around 25 000 Tor users from Finland. The number of users is very stable. Except right now I see a spike of 200 000 Tor users connected from Finland. Number of users starts to increase on Tuesday 2021-12-21. https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-10-13&end=2022-01-11&country=fi&events=off In addition, there is a spike in non-direct bridge users from Finland as well. https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2021-10-13&end=2022-01-11&country=fi All this is happening only in Finland and we can easily see that from other countries nearby, like Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the number of connected users is flat stable. For instance, see numbers from Sweden: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2021-10-13&end=2022-01-11&country=se&events=off Someone could speculate that this is some kind of test carried out from Finnish IP range or a bot network infecting only Finnish machines like poorly configured home routers and installing malware communicating through Tor. Furthermore, there was known Tor censorship in Russia in December, see https://blog.torproject.org/tor-censorship-in-russia/. The fact we know is the increasing number of Tor users from Finland. Do we actually know something concrete behind this?
My first instinct is "look at whether the GeoIP database acquired a bug around that time". Beyond that, not my area of competence, so no clue.
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