[tor-talk] Surge in Users

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On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 3:01 PM, iwanlegit at cock.li wrote:
 
> 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
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Of course it is possible for Directory Authorities to collect the IPs 
of
connecting clients and publish them.
Yet they could only do it once because they
would lose the trust of their users for ever. ;)

So there have to be other ways to guess what type of new users
use the network.