[tor-talk] Surge in Users

[Roman Mamedov]

On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:14:12 +0300
Van Gegel <torfone at ukr.net> wrote:

> Maybe after publication on popular Russian resource Habr: https://habr.com/ru/post/448856/
> This is Android app for talking over Tor:
> http://torfone.org/download/Torfone.apk
> http://torfone.org/download/Torfone_Android_howto.pdf
> https://github.com/gegel/torfone
> https://github.com/gegel/torfone/blob/master/white.pdf 
> BR, Van Gegel

Cool development, but it is unlikely to be the reason, the Habr article
currently has 28k views, and Russia's user count now fluctuates by 150k users,
following a strong correlation with workday schedule.
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-05-01&end=2019-06-10&country=ru&events=points
Extra 100 to 150 thousand users during Monday to Friday (May 13-17, 20-24,
27-31), then dropping during weekends. A massive botnet on office PCs?

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With respect,
Roman