Could these be attempts at data mining for unmasking Tor users?
It’s quite an interesting spike, though I doubt that such an operation would be so obviously.
Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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As someone from the UK I’ve never seen anything blocked on my home Internet (except actual scam sites but you can turn that off, and yes that’s from my ISP and not the browser) My mobile data does incorrectly flag some things as 18+ though
Are you required to provide doxxing personal information proving your age on these sites or can you browse anonymously?
No - the law that may end up requiring that is a proposal that is at least several months from being enacted [0], although it's been gaining momentum for several years - so unfortunately is looking like it might actually happen
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I doubt it's either of those - it would be extremely unethical and illegal for academics to do, and governments don't need to take this approach because they have a bunch of systemic attacks that are less obvious. Perhaps someone with a botnet looking to sell unmasking, which has been popping up as a service recently. Or trying to use it against a specific DWM or vendor.
> it would be extremely unethical and illegal for academics to do Nothing illegal about it.
There is, because it's a botnet
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#95From 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 service…
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do you believe these numbers?
It would be much helpful if you could provide one or two reasons why the number could be wrong.... or maybe make some comments on the methodology, etc.. Just question about the accuracy without any context or reasons are not contributing to the argument.
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How would you know if they are legitimate if you block them.
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It would be much helpful if you could provide one or two reasons why the number could be wrong.... or maybe make some comments on the methodology, etc.. Just question about the accuracy without any context or reasons are not contributing to the argument.
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