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

[mirimir]

On 08/27/2013 08:00 PM, Nathan Suchy wrote:

> I think the more Tor Usage the better as it protects Tor and gives more
> people a reason to run nodes...

That's true.

But this is putting people, possibly many people, at risk. They think
that they're browsing via Tor, but they're really not, except for
selected censored sites, as defined by The Pirate Bay.

It's arguably their own fault, because they didn't read the FAQ, but
even so, it's a seriously dumb move by The Pirate Bay.

> On Aug 27, 2013 8:18 AM, "mick" <mbm at rlogin.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:39:58 +0000
>> mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> allegedly wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/27/2013 07:08 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Check out
>>>> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
>>>> (for posterity, the longer-term link will be
>>>>
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-05-29&end=2013-08-27&country=all&events=off#direct-users
>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I suspect PirateBrowser, given that PirateBay users probably outnumber
>>> privacy lovers by 2-3 orders of magnitude.
>>
>> Source?
>>
>> Mick
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