[tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

[Roman Mamedov]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:57 +0200
Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists <lists at infosecurity.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> a close friend (faffa) noticed that on 28th August 2017 there was an
> unusual spike of Tor traffic in Egypt and Turkey:
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-22&end=2017-09-20&country=tr&events=off
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-22&end=2017-09-20&country=eg&events=off
> 
> 
> Does anyone already analyzed those spikes and understood what happened?

Egypt on Aug 28:

https://afteegypt.org/right_to_know-2/publicationsright_to_know-right_to_know-2/2017/06/04/13069-afteegypt.html?lang=en
"Update 2.0.0 (29 August 2017)
On the 28th of August, 261 websites providing VPN and Proxy services where found blocked.
A new section was added to the report containing a schedule that lists monitored websites that provides VPN and Proxy services."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Egypt/comments/6wkbcw/did_they_seriously_just_block_vpns/

But it seems puzzling the spike was just for 1 day and then back to
just exactly the previous level.

-- 
With respect,
Roman