Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-12 Thread iwanlegit
Yes. I cannot stop thinking that operators of DAs publish all past logs when they shutdown their DAs! :D -- 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

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-12 Thread iwanlegit
I checked similar increases of relay users in other countries. Iranian type: United Arab Emirates https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-13=2019-06-11=ae=points Romania

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-12 Thread iwanlegit
Yes. It's odd that one in a hundred (1%) people is using Tor. I checked percentages of users/population in countries. They may be less than 0.3%. https://pastebin.com/nbbBhJ5h Country users population (users/population) United States 379893329,351,255 (0.12%) Russia

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-12 Thread iwanlegit
Thanks for helpful comments and references! I may have understood that there are: - Research Safety Board - AS number approach - Nine (10?) individuals who run the directory authorities and are independent of the control of torproject - Privcount approach - Tor design: It doesn't hide using

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-09 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 01:01:38PM +, iwanle...@cock.li wrote: > Can Directory Authorities analyze hostnames of relay users and publish them? They could, but I don't think that would be a good idea, at least until somebody has thought through how to do it in a safe way. As a start for that

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-09 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 01:21:09PM +0300, Van Gegel wrote: > Take into account that statistics are number of unique user's IPs >connected to bridges per day. My cellular provider change my local GPRS >IP exactly every hour and my external IP also changed to random value of >provider's pool. Each

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-09 Thread entensaison
  On Friday, June 7, 2019 at 3:01 PM, iwanle...@cock.li wrote:   Can Directory Authorities analyze hostnames of relay users and publish them? If the hostnames or organization names associated with the users are available, we could know what type of users are increasing, and probably we could

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-09 Thread iwanlegit
Can Directory Authorities analyze hostnames of relay users and publish them? If the hostnames or organization names associated with the users are available, we could know what type of users are increasing, and probably we could guess why. In Iran and Russia, are the increases being made by

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-07 Thread Neel Chauhan
However, there can be multiple cell providers, each with their own IP allocation scheme. Your cell provider may be the dominant provider in a monopolistic market, or it may only have a fraction of the market if you have competition. In the latter scenario, most mobile Tor clients in your

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-07 Thread Van Gegel
bo0od: > no secure TLS or onion connection to the website, first insecurity note. Now the web page is under construction and project is only alpha. Although I do not quite understand the role of https for real security. It is more reliable to sign all related products with a PGP key, and this

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-06 Thread Van Gegel
Take into account that statistics are number of unique user's IPs connected to bridges per day. My cellular provider change my local GPRS IP exactly every hour and my external IP also changed to random value of provider's pool.  Each time IP was changed my Tor rebuild 3 new circuits to

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-06 Thread bo0od
no secure TLS or onion connection to the website, first insecurity note. Van Gegel: > Maybe after publication on popular Russian resource Habr:  > https://habr.com/ru/post/448856/ > This is Android app for talking over Tor: > http://torfone.org/download/Torfone.apk >

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-06 Thread Roman Mamedov
On Tue, 04 Jun 2019 19:14:12 +0300 Van Gegel wrote: > Maybe after publication on popular Russian resource Habr:  > https://habr.com/ru/post/448856/ > This is Android app for talking over Tor: > http://torfone.org/download/Torfone.apk > http://torfone.org/download/Torfone_Android_howto.pdf >

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-06 Thread Van Gegel
Maybe after publication on popular Russian resource Habr:  https://habr.com/ru/post/448856/ This is Android app for talking over Tor: http://torfone.org/download/Torfone.apk http://torfone.org/download/Torfone_Android_howto.pdf https://github.com/gegel/torfone

Re: [tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-03 Thread Öyvind Saether
> Do you know why relay users have increased rapidly? What do you think? > > The increase mostly came from Iran and Russia. > 700K of the increase happend in Iran. > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2019-03-04=2019-06-02=ir=points Are those actually relay users?

[tor-talk] Surge in Users

2019-06-03 Thread iwanlegit
Do you know why relay users have increased rapidly? What do you think? Relay users have increased by about 1000K for one month. https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html The increase mostly came from Iran and Russia. 700K of the increase happend in Iran.