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

[Asa Rossoff]

>From Gordon Morehouse:
> Asa Rossoff:
> [snip]
>> Whatever the case, I do hope that the larger pattern is not an
>> attack on Tor, which would seem to be the major concern.  If
>> there's more interest and demand, that will ultimately be good for
>> the success of Tor, I would think.
>> 
>> Hopefully recent increases are reflective of a sudden elevation in
>> privacy and security concerns in the world, although the suddenness
>> of this (unprecendented?) expansion is a bit hard to fathom.
>
> I find it really, really hard to believe that even Educated Joe
> Sixpack reading all the NSA revelations, worldwide, in nearly all
> countries, just now suddenly became both worried enough and tech-savvy
> enough to install Tor and start using it.
>
> We can hope, but it seems very unlikely, even combined with a Pirate
> Browser bump in traffic.

I certainly haven't noticed a massive number of social media and blog posts
one would expect to see associated with a huge new public interest.  It's
not trending on Twitter.
Asa