On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:20:39AM +0200, Matthijs R. Koot wrote: > > : Requests: Why? [1] from the Tor-talk mailinglist. Some believe (credits > > : to @ly_gs for enlightening me) that the August 2011 spike in Tor users > > : via bridges may be related to the Dutch police investigation on Tor > > : hidden services hosting child pornography, which also took place during > > > > How do these two things go together? Hidden services are unrelated to > > bridges. And we're seeing massive bridge queries, and huge spikes of > > bridge useres in European countries. > > I know, mind the last part (see below) of my post, which was probably > WAY too long. I'm wondering whether, in lack of a better explanation, > the bridge spike might have been caused by undisclosed activities > performed by Dutch police et al. Not looking for a yes/no answer, only > proposing a possible lead to follow for finding an explanation.
I think it's extremely unlikely to be related. There's no way "get a million people in Italy, Spain, and Latin America to use Tor" is somehow one of the steps in a Dutch police investigation. --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
