Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#2Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
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#3China has the great firewall, the UK has Hadrian's firewall, I guess this is the Berlin firewall.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#4Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
But that's been happening for some time already, while this spike is recent.
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#5Germany is blocking a lot of websites ( i.e. rt.com)
Russian-run sites like RT are banned through the whole EU. However, such spikes cannot be seen in other EU countries such as France.
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#6Could these be attempts at data mining for unmasking Tor users?
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#7From an average of significantly below 500k to almost 2.5M users.
This drives up the global number of connecting users from approx. 3M to almost 5M.
Hard to imagine that so many people in Germany suddenly switched to TOR, especially since there has not been any significant event lately that may have triggered such a decision (afaik)?
My personal experience with TOR (as an administrator of various websites and services) is that it is a major source of unwanted/malicious traffic (spam, etc.) and most of it is automated. The big increase is probably not users but bots?
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#8Maybe related to the Proto-Nazi party AfD winning a district a few days ago. And this 5 day old news story: https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-far-right-afd-securi... "Germany’s far-right AfD placed under security service surveillance" - "The party is now treated as a ‘suspected case’ for far-right extremism".
I wonder if anyone can see inside the right-wing chat networks and if they've been mentioning Tor.
Although in the raw CSV's the spike started around mid-June...
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#9Could these be attempts at data mining for unmasking Tor users?
Back in 2017 the German BND was revealed to have a history with that: https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-...
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