>From Gordon Morehouse: > Asa Rossoff: > [snip] >> Whatever the case, I do hope that the larger pattern is not an >> attack on Tor, which would seem to be the major concern. If >> there's more interest and demand, that will ultimately be good for >> the success of Tor, I would think. >> >> Hopefully recent increases are reflective of a sudden elevation in >> privacy and security concerns in the world, although the suddenness >> of this (unprecendented?) expansion is a bit hard to fathom. > > I find it really, really hard to believe that even Educated Joe > Sixpack reading all the NSA revelations, worldwide, in nearly all > countries, just now suddenly became both worried enough and tech-savvy > enough to install Tor and start using it. > > We can hope, but it seems very unlikely, even combined with a Pirate > Browser bump in traffic.
I certainly haven't noticed a massive number of social media and blog posts one would expect to see associated with a huge new public interest. It's not trending on Twitter. Asa -- 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