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

[mirimir]

On 09/04/2013 02:09 AM, Collin Anderson wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:39 PM, mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
>> I wonder what it might mean.
>>
> 
> I don't believe much, Syria's increase was relatively marginal and
> potentially related to normal trends of weekly or holiday use. For the most
> party, suspect countries have increased orders of magnitude in users --
> Syria is only a few percent and it's decreased since.

Huh? Syria went from ca. 1e+3 in late June 2013 to over 4e+3, initially
a spike in early July, and then plateauing in early August.

That's hardly a few percent. It's a factor of four. And that's plainly
obvious from the Tor metrics site:

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-01-01&end=2013-09-03&country=sy&events=off#direct-users

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-07-01&end=2013-09-03&country=sy&events=off#direct-users

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2013-01-01&end=2013-09-04&country=sy#userstats-relay-country

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2013-07-01&end=2013-09-04&country=sy#userstats-relay-country

> Seems like the start of a dangerous rumor.

It's just an observation. And for what it's worth, you're the one who
initially posted a derived chart for Syria, which just happened to
average out the changes in July and early August.