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

Nathan Suchy theusernameiwantistaken at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 20:00:50 UTC 2013


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