[tor-bugs] #6003 [Metrics Website]: Quantitative user studies of how people use Tor

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#6003: Quantitative user studies of how people use Tor
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 Reporter:  phobos           |          Owner:                             
     Type:  project          |         Status:  new                        
 Priority:  normal           |      Milestone:  Sponsor Z: November 1, 2013
Component:  Metrics Website  |        Version:                             
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 Run a quantitative user study of how people use Tor. Many, many people
 want to know the top 100 destinations seen by tor exit relays. We'll need
 to figure out safe ways to collect this data in bulk, analyze it, and
 publish it for others to use/see/manipulate. Further questions involve top
 destinations over the day, weeks, months, and years for the tor network at
 a whole.

 The current answer may be "there is no safe way to collect this data", but
 we won't know until we do some research and arrive at an answer. A few
 researchers have simply recorded all traffic or samples of traffic, from
 their exit relays and then run afoul of ethics boards and human subjects
 ethics at their institutions.

 Researching a better method, publishing the method, and testing the method
 in a simulator may be one possible process.

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