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

[mick]

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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