Re: Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March (was: Tor in China)

2010-03-10 Thread Andrew Lewman
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:31:06 -0500, Flamsmark  wrote:

:At the beginning of March, the great firewall of China blocked all (then)
:known tor exits and relays, and a substantial number of bridges - presumably
:enumerated over a prior, somewhat extended period.

This is our working theory as well.  Pending research involves which set of 
bridges were blocked; website, email, twitter/qq account, or all of them.

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Re: Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March (was: Tor in China)

2010-03-10 Thread Flamsmark
On 10 March 2010 07:42, Paul Menzel wrote:

> So my next question is, why did the users count drop that much in the
> beginning of March?
>

At the beginning of March, the great firewall of China blocked all (then)
known tor exits and relays, and a substantial number of bridges - presumably
enumerated over a prior, somewhat extended period.


Drop Tor users via bridges by over 2/3 in the beginning of March (was: Tor in China)

2010-03-10 Thread Paul Menzel
Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 13:27 +0100 schrieb Karsten Loesing:

[…]

> I figured out the problem. The metrics portal had the bridge user
> numbers from 2009-11-30 to 2010-01-05 imported twice. This affected all
> countries, but was simply most visible for Chinese bridge users. I
> removed those days from the stats and imported the descriptors again.
> 
> The corrected graphs can be found on the graphs page:
> 
>   http://metrics.torproject.org/bridge-users-graphs.html#china

So my next question is, why did the users count drop that much in the
beginning of March?

[…]


Thanks,

Paul


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