On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:41:55PM +0100, Philipp Winter wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 06:09:00PM -0700, David Fifield wrote: > > You can eyeball more examples in the omni-graph: > > https://people.torproject.org/~dcf/graphs/relays-all.pdf > > That's a really useful overview! It would be great if we could include > that on the metrics page.
Here is the source code: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2014-October/007697.html > > Is there a usual story we tell to explain what's happening? A few > > hypotheses: > > * People use Tor at work to get their job done (work firewall blocks > > sites they need). > > * People use Tor at work to goof off. > > * People are relaxing and partying on the weekends, not sitting in > > front of a computer. > > * People don't have good Internet at home, so they use it more at work > > (and Tor use just correlates with Internet use). > > It looks like many of these patterns started emerging after the big > botnet spike. It might be caused by infected office computers whose > owners don't know that Tor is running and who tend to turn off their > computers over the weekend. There are probably also infected home > computers that tend to be used only over the weekend. That wouldn't > explain the meek-specific pattern, though, because the botnet only used > vanilla Tor as far as I know. That's a good observation about the botnet. But I agree, it seems like too much at this point for a malware author to start building in pluggable transports, especially one that's only easily usable with Tor Browser at this point. > Apparently several countries such as Ethiopia and Uzbekistan had these > weekly patterns for a long time, even before the botnet. These > countries have a rather small user base and the few users might only use > Tor in an office setting, like you said. I wonder if it correlates with censored-ness. I.e., people using Tor for circumvention more than anonymity. Uzbekistan and Ethiopia are both "not free" in the Freedom House 2014 summary: https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/resources/FOTN%202014%20Summary%20of%20Findings.pdf David Fifield _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev