Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread Tommy Collison
On 9/20/17 2:35 AM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:57 +0200 > Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> a close friend (faffa) noticed that on 28th August 2017 there was an >> unusual spike of Tor traffic in Egypt and Turkey: >> >>

Re: [tor-talk] Document Leak: German Agency BND cooperates with NSA and GCHQ to attack Tor

2017-09-20 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 05:54:50PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Could you please quote the part of the article or source documents that > lead you to the conclusion that "[a]ll three agencies run their own > exit nodes"? > Unless I missed it, however, there's no claim that the BND itself > is

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread Kevin
Could this be security related or simply more connectivity? On 9/20/2017 5:24 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists wrote: Hello, a close friend (faffa) noticed that on 28th August 2017 there was an unusual spike of Tor traffic in Egypt and Turkey:

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread Paul Syverson
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 07:53:35AM -0400, krishna e bera wrote: > On 20/09/17 06:00 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: [snip] > > > > I'd really love to see Tor, TBB and TBB-Plugin mechanisms upgraded to run > > over single-onion, for instance. It would make sense. > > > > -a > > > > If by

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread krishna e bera
On 20/09/17 06:00 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > In certain respects this can be read as "TBB's threat model excessively > trades-off consistency and usability in favour of protections which > $SOME_MAJORITY of its userbase do not actually need" - but I'm okay with > the status quo. > > I would rather

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread Alec Muffett
On 20 September 2017 at 10:35, Roman Mamedov wrote: > 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."

Re: [tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:24:57 +0200 Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists wrote: > Hello, > > a close friend (faffa) noticed that on 28th August 2017 there was an > unusual spike of Tor traffic in Egypt and Turkey: > >

[tor-talk] Unusual Tor's spikes in Egypt and Turkey on 28th August

2017-09-20 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti - Lists
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=2017-09-20=tr=off