On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Roger Dingledine <a...@mit.edu> wrote: > Check out > https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html > The number of Tor clients running appears to have doubled since August 19: > And it's not just a fluke in the metrics data -- it appears that > there really are twice as many Tor clients running as before: > https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#dirbytes > > There's a slight increase (worsening) in the performance measurements: > https://metrics.torproject.org/performance.html > but it's hard to say if that's a real difference. So while there are a > bunch of new Tor clients running, it would seem they're not doing much. > > Anybody know details? It's easy to speculate (Pirate Browser publicity > gone overboard? People finally reading about the NSA thing? Botnet?), > but some good solid facts would sure be useful.
Too big a double in under a week for me to believe it's natural growth based on news or some promo somewhere. I'd guess it got included in some app. A botnet fits perfect, try a blog post and something off to a white-hat list. Or its some sort of analysis/attack/flood against the dirs. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk