On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:57 +0200 Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists <li...@infosecurity.ch> wrote:
> Hello, > > a close friend (faffa) noticed that on 28th August 2017 there was an > unusual spike of Tor traffic in Egypt and Turkey: > > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-22&end=2017-09-20&country=tr&events=off > > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-06-22&end=2017-09-20&country=eg&events=off > > > Does anyone already analyzed those spikes and understood what happened? Egypt on Aug 28: https://afteegypt.org/right_to_know-2/publicationsright_to_know-right_to_know-2/2017/06/04/13069-afteegypt.html?lang=en "Update 2.0.0 (29 August 2017) On the 28th of August, 261 websites providing VPN and Proxy services where found blocked. A new section was added to the report containing a schedule that lists monitored websites that provides VPN and Proxy services." https://www.reddit.com/r/Egypt/comments/6wkbcw/did_they_seriously_just_block_vpns/ But it seems puzzling the spike was just for 1 day and then back to just exactly the previous level. -- With respect, Roman -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk