On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 11:47, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > With more and more countries passing data retention legislation lately > you can expect that Tor usage will change considerably from month to > month.
I don't think that enthusiasts (people who change their behavior without being directly affected) can have a significant impact on usage statistics when compared to millions of people who are impacted directly (i.e., cannot access YouTube). In China, e.g., over half of URLs are blocked, in my experience of couple of years ago, even under same domain. That's a much more serious motivation to use a mechanism like Tor to circumvent censorship, compared to traffic interception. E.g., in Russia, if I am not mistaken, every ISP of certain size must (by law) duplicate all of its traffic to an FSB-supplied box — where are the users? Even in absence of legislation, people already know that internal security services and military intelligence will (and do) intercept everything they can. > By the way, good to see a fan of the Strugazkis on this list. :) -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux (discussion / support: http://dee.su/liberte-contribute) _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk