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Could this be related to Ricochet getting press?
by boondaburrah 11y ago
Could this be related to Ricochet getting press?
- AdmiralAsshat 11y agoFrom the article: One possibility, he said, might be a sudden swell in the popularity of Ricochet, an app that uses Tor to allow anonymous instant messaging between users.
- neuromute 11y agoI'd say this is highly likely. I saw it posted earlier on hn and Reddit. If it's doing the rounds, it seems plausible that 25k people just gave it a whirl. The article even states that the spike could be a due to Ricochet, but "mystery" traffic makes a better headline.
- chatmasta 11y agoThat's the speculation on the tor-talk mailing list. Makes sense to me. Also, there was a recent security audit of ricochet. It's possible that the auditors automated some kind of test framework with the side effect of creating thousands of new hidden service addresses.