Sudden increase in number of Tor nodes

[Mike .]

Any ideas why there have been *two* sudden increases in the number of
Tor nodes recently?

Take a look at the following graphs at torstat.xenobite.eu:

https://torstat.xenobite.eu/showstatistics.php
https://torstat.xenobite.eu/mrtg-torstat/torstat-routers-month.png

In weeks 8 and 12 there appear to be roughly 50 new nodes added in the
space of roughly one day.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike.

Re: Sudden increase in number of Tor nodes

[Matej Kovacic]

Hi,

 In weeks 8 and 12 there appear to be roughly 50 new nodes added in the
 space of roughly one day.

Some secret service or criminal organisation is trying to repeat what
Dan Egerstad didi in his embassy hack last year? :-)

Or maybe someone is donating servers to Tor project? :-))

However, it would be nice to see where these servers emerge and at what
dates/times...

bye, M.

Re: Sudden increase in number of Tor nodes

[defcon]

or maybe someone is hacking boxes and puting tor servers up ?

Re: Sudden increase in number of Tor nodes

[blau]

Mike . ha scritto:

In weeks 8 and 12 there appear to be roughly 50 new nodes added in the
space of roughly one day.


Any major press highlight, or word-of-mouth campaign, in any country?

Or something non-Tor that motivates people to work around blocks and 
censorshi, for example, the Hong Kong sex pictures scandal?


Jan

Re: Sudden increase in number of Tor nodes

[Csaba KIRALY]

blau wrote:
 Mike . ha scritto:
 In weeks 8 and 12 there appear to be roughly 50 new nodes added in the
 space of roughly one day.

 Any major press highlight, or word-of-mouth campaign, in any country?

 Or something non-Tor that motivates people to work around blocks and
 censorshi, for example, the Hong Kong sex pictures scandal?

 Jan
Look at the bottom of the page: per country statistics. Same change for
each, which to me seems like one of the following:
- global media highlight
- someone running Tor routers in a PlanetLab slice
- simply a change in the counting method? :)
Csaba

Re: Sudden increase in number of Tor nodes

[Matej Kovacic]

Hi,

 - someone running Tor routers in a PlanetLab slice

I don't want to be paranoid or think in a terms of conspiracy theory,
but what Dan Egerstad did was that he set up several Tor exit nodes in a
different countries.

More nodes and more diversity (different countries) means greater
possibiliy that you will catch something of interest.

However, even if some secret service would be doing that, Tor would
provide me anonymity against local eavesdroppers (local ISP, my boss,
local advertisements network, etc.). And of course, using end-to-end
encryption reduces the risk...

P. S. What if P2P operators are developing a technology to link tor
and P2P :-))

bye, M.