[tor-talk] Tor (and Orbot's) growth in Turkey

[Joe Btfsplk]

On 4/4/2014 10:20 AM, Nathan Freitas wrote:
> Remember how Tor doubled its user base in Turkey in the last month?
>
> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2014-01-04&end=2014-04-04&country=tr&events=off#userstats-relay-country
>
> Well, at least ~18,000 of the 30,000 were Orbot users:
> https://twitter.com/guardianproject/status/452100420505059329
>
> which I believe was driven directly from the fact that Twitter for
> Android includes very easy proxy settings, and that Google Play itself
> was not blocked. There were a number of articles, tweets, in Turkish,
> that laid out the easy process to install Orbot, enabled Twitter proxy
> settings, etc.
>
> It would be nice it had been 30,000,000 new users (considering the
> population of Turkey is 74 million), but it might be good to think about
> Turkey's Twitter block as a "censorship-lite" event, not unlike the UK
> or Indonesia, and then figure out how we can encourage more adoption
> next time.
Given the backdoors apparently discovered in many cell phones, are they 
the best choice when incarceration is potentially on the line?