[or-cvs] r8460: hundreds of thousands of users (website/trunk/en)

arma at seul.org arma at seul.org
Fri Sep 22 18:26:05 UTC 2006


Author: arma
Date: 2006-09-22 14:26:05 -0400 (Fri, 22 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 8460

Modified:
   website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml
Log:
hundreds of thousands of users


Modified: website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml
===================================================================
--- website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml	2006-09-22 18:03:15 UTC (rev 8459)
+++ website/trunk/en/faq-abuse.wml	2006-09-22 18:26:05 UTC (rev 8460)
@@ -261,14 +261,18 @@
 abusers to blend in, the abusers moved back to using their open proxies
 and bot networks. </p>
 
-<p>Second, consider that thousands of people use Tor every day simply for
+<p>Second, consider that hundreds of thousands of people use Tor every
+day simply for
 good data hygiene &mdash; for example, to protect against data-gathering
 advertising companies while going about their normal activities. Others
 use Tor because it's their only way to get past restrictive local
 firewalls. Some Tor users may be legitimately connecting
 to your service right now to carry on normal activities. You need to
 decide whether banning the Tor network is worth losing the contributions
-of these users, as well as potential future legitimate users. </p>
+of these users, as well as potential future legitimate users. (Often
+people don't have a good measure of how many polite Tor users are
+connecting to their service &mdash; you never notice them until there's
+an impolite one.)</p>
 
 <p>At this point, you should also ask yourself what you do about other
 services that aggregate many users behind a few IP addresses. Tor is



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