On 09/04/2013 06:06 AM, Asa Rossoff wrote: >>From mirimir: >> On 09/04/2013 02:09 AM, Collin Anderson wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:39 PM, mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I wonder what it might mean. >>>> >>> >>> I don't believe much, Syria's increase was relatively marginal and >>> potentially related to normal trends of weekly or holiday use. For the > most >>> party, suspect countries have increased orders of magnitude in users -- >>> Syria is only a few percent and it's decreased since. >> >> Huh? Syria went from ca. 1e+3 in late June 2013 to over 4e+3, initially >> a spike in early July, and then plateauing in early August. >> >> That's hardly a few percent. It's a factor of four. And that's plainly >> obvious from the Tor metrics site: > ... > > I agree there is an anomoly in Syrian usage, but it appears independent of > the overall anomoly. > > Since it occurred first, it's conceivable that Syria was a testing ground > for a botnet or that events in Syria indepently created either an increase > in local Tor demand or accessibility.
That's true. > Reviewing known Syrian political and war events occurring, as well as the > Muslim and Syrian holiday and festival calendars, as well as reviewing Tor > usage data worldwide, and a sampling of major news stories related to > privacy and encryption, I came up with something of a timeline, although I > draw no conclusions from it. Thank you very much for the summary. Taking a broader view, I agree that the changes in Syrian Tor usage might be independent of the global surge. https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2010-01-01&end=2013-09-04&country=sy&events=off#direct-users SNIP -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
