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If you break it down by country, you can see the same halving for every country. It is unlikely that a social reason behind this, or a botnet going down as some
by abdullahkhalids 11y ago
If you break it down by country, you can see the same halving for every country. It is unlikely that a social reason behind this, or a botnet going down as someone has suggested. It is more likely an intentional or unintentional change in how the number of users are counted.
- 3pt14159 11y agoOr an institutional Tor user like say the NSA realized a flaw in it and executed a predetermined strategy of ceasing use uniformly in order to shroud that there is a previously undetermined weakness that they just discovered. I'm not saying that the above situation is likely, just that it is possible.
- sp332 11y agoAn institutional Tor user with proportionally the same number of endpoints as all other Tor users in each country? Probably not even the NSA would qualify.
- 3pt14159 11y agoIf they had this strategy ahead of time, what would stop them from rooting a proportional number of Wordpress servers in order to give this illusion? I think the better counter argument is this: Why would they even take actions which disclose the change? Why not just change the nature of their queries?