[tor-project] New UAE Users

[David Fifield]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 01:05:15AM +0000, Matthew Finkel wrote:
> Anyone know what caused the remarkable jump in direct and obfs3 users from
> the UAE that began on 16 Jan and 06 Feb, respectively?
> 
> Sorry if I already missed the discussion about this.
> 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?start=2017-01-14&end=2017-03-08&country=ae&events=off
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2017-02-04&end=2017-03-08&country=ae

We don't know the cause AFAIK, but we have some entries for it with
links, near the bottom of
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/MetricsTimeline#Unknown