There's been research by a CU Boulder team and Yoshi Kohno to this effect. You can google it. best, Joe
On Wednesday, April 4, 2012, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 18:26, Andreas Krey <a.k...@gmx.de <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > Normal people in developed countries who use tor to > > > > a) provide the background noise for the users that need protection, > > > > b) use it as a way around lack of WLAN security or other funny > > ideas of mobile interneter providers, > > I don't doubt that there are such uses, I am just wondering about the > actual percentage breakdown of different users. As it stands, the “Tor > users” page at torproject.org is essentially propaganda aimed at > presenting a certain image, but I would like to know how would it look > like if sorted by users count. It's a frequent question, something > that many people would like to know — and ultimately, the reason that > the “Tor users” page exists. Only problem, that page is not too useful > for answering the question. How would the top of the page look if > sorted by actual most popular uses? Would it be: > > * Asians and Muslim use Tor to get on Facebook > * Loonies use Tor to hide from The Man > * Stoners use Tor to buy drugs > * Pedophiles use Tor to share videos > > Or is that list completely wrong? Right now, it seems difficult to get > a reliable estimate. > > -- > Maxim Kammerer > Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org <javascript:;> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- Joseph Lorenzo Hall Postdoctoral Research Fellow Media, Culture and Communication New York University https://josephhall.org/ _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk