[tor-commits] [metrics-web/release] Update news.json to version 219 of doc/MetricsTimeline.

[karsten at torproject.org]

commit 544a9585af52ca4503bc95d4d15c5f4bedd2cc74
Author: Karsten Loesing <karsten.loesing at gmx.net>
Date:   Thu Feb 8 10:46:47 2018 +0100

    Update news.json to version 219 of doc/MetricsTimeline.
---
 src/main/resources/web/json/news.json | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json b/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json
index 8da74f9..6b8565a 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json
+++ b/src/main/resources/web/json/news.json
@@ -2886,11 +2886,12 @@
       "<OR>",
       "relay"
     ],
-    "description": "Huge increase in relay users (400k+).",
+    "description": "Huge increase in relay users (400k+). An anonymous contributor suggests that it may be a botnet, based on the large number of hosts with an open SMB port in the UAE.",
     "links": [
       "<a href=\"https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-01-01&end=2017-06-01&country=ae&events=off\">graph</a>",
       "<a href=\"https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2017-January/000284.html\">metrics-team thread</a>",
-      "<a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5pbukk/united_arab_emirates_went_from_10k_tor_users_to/\">reddit thread</a>"
+      "<a href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5pbukk/united_arab_emirates_went_from_10k_tor_users_to/\">reddit thread</a>",
+      "<a href=\"https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/25137#comment:10\">comment about botnet</a>"
     ],
     "unknown": true
   },