[tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-04 Thread Matthijs R. Koot
Hi tor-talk, In response to the "Massive Automated Tor Bridge Requests: Why?" message on Cryptome [1] wrote the following on my blog [2]. I'd love to hear you take on the likeliness that Dutch police activities caused (or didn't) the spike Roger observed [3]. I apologize for not replying in-thread

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-09 Thread andrew
On Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 06:03:35PM +0200, k...@uva.nl wrote 7.4K bytes in 147 lines about: : Requests: Why? [1] from the Tor-talk mailinglist. Some believe (credits : to @ly_gs for enlightening me) that the August 2011 spike in Tor users : via bridges may be related to the Dutch police investigati

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-10 Thread Matthijs R. Koot
Hi Andrew, > : Requests: Why? [1] from the Tor-talk mailinglist. Some believe (credits > : to @ly_gs for enlightening me) that the August 2011 spike in Tor users > : via bridges may be related to the Dutch police investigation on Tor > : hidden services hosting child pornography, which also took p

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-10 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:20:39AM +0200, Matthijs R. Koot wrote: > > : Requests: Why? [1] from the Tor-talk mailinglist. Some believe (credits > > : to @ly_gs for enlightening me) that the August 2011 spike in Tor users > > : via bridges may be related to the Dutch police investigation on Tor > >

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-10 Thread andrew
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:20:39AM +0200, k...@uva.nl wrote 1.8K bytes in 40 lines about: : I know, mind the last part (see below) of my post, which was probably : WAY too long. I'm wondering whether, in lack of a better explanation, : the bridge spike might have been caused by undisclosed activit

Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation Or Also Causation?

2011-09-10 Thread Curious Kid
- Original Message - > From: "and...@torproject.org" > Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 2:29 PM > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Dutch Police Investigation & Tor Spike: Correlation > Or Also Causation? > > The current rumors around this spike in bridge queri