[tor-talk] Surge in Users

[iwanlegit at cock.li]

Can Directory Authorities analyze hostnames of relay users and publish 
them?

If the hostnames or organization names associated with the users are 
available, we could know what type of users are increasing, and probably 
we could guess why. In Iran and Russia, are the increases being made by 
individuals, companies, and/or governments? I want to know that.

https://metrics.torproject.org/reproducible-metrics.html#relay-users
Directory Authorities (DAs) can see IP addresses of relay users and are 
reporting countries associated with the addresses for torproject. So DAs 
may be under control of torproject. Can torproject let DAs report 
hostnames of the users? Should rapid increases of the users be clear for 
Tor overall? I would like torproject to decide to do that!

But if torproject can let DAs report them, I won't be able to use Tor 
with security. Even now, can DAs collect our personal information 
including IP addresses and leak them in theory? :D