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> Germany is blocking news from French riots. What are you on about? The riots in France are on pretty much every news site in Germany.
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Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
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#162Is someone trying to compromise the Tor network? I read that Tor needs a certain percentage of non-malicious nodes to function, though I am not sure if that is applicable clients.
I think you're thinking of blockchain
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#163Maybe 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. Alth…
That is not sufficient in total numbers. That would be in the press that a whole part of the population goes Tor. They would never be quiet enough about it.
Looks anorganic and if it is organic I bet for Netflix and co related.
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#164From 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…
I faced a recent distributed attack averaging 20,000 RPS[1] around the same time which makes me think that there might be a bot. I wonder if there’s a network of website operators similar to NANOG or the RIPE NCC mailing lists where I could compare my own experience with those of other operators. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561930
If there isn't, lets make one. We could self host it, lock it down to invite-only.
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#165From 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…
The interesting question is if there is a bot net spreading in Germany since the 17th of June. What would be the likelihood of that going undetected. If you like conspiracy theory, the rise in one country could point to state actors.
Why would it be so localized to one country? Does Germany have a unique enemy compared to other NATO countries?
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#167From 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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As a Danish person who has been to Eastern Germany (outside Berlin) I'm really not surprised by the rise of the AfD. It's common to see people on social media praise Germans for de-Nazification and criticize the Japanese for not confronting their past in the same way. Those people have clearly not interacted with Eastern Germans. In Eastern Germany the underlying neuroticism, persecution complex, and willingness to b…
Hardly surprising, treuhand left east Germany extremely poor.
The unification wasn't exactly free. The immense costs for the most part were shouldered by western citizens through the Solidaritätszuschlag. The total price tag is estimated to be between 0.95 and 2 trillion Euro (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosten_der_deutschen_Einheit#R...).
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If they even think you are spamming, you get banned. Pretty much closed to individuals (according to Reddit, if they don’t even like the way your ID looks, you’re banned) while businesses get more leeway to do things.
I didn’t realize they’re that strict. I have an individual account with them I occasionally use and didn’t encounter any issues with ID (I can’t even recall being ID’d tbh). That being said, I am located in Germany and have a German billing address, so maybe international customers have more issues?
They’re not closed to individuals. I’ve run two VPSs on Hetzner cloud for 2 years now…
Re: Drastic increase in Tor clients from Germany
#170From 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…
I faced a recent distributed attack averaging 20,000 RPS[1] around the same time which makes me think that there might be a bot. I wonder if there’s a network of website operators similar to NANOG or the RIPE NCC mailing lists where I could compare my own experience with those of other operators. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36561930
Why not CAPTCHA protect these pages instead of blocking tor? Same attack can go through regular web.