[tor-project] New UAE Users

[Matthew Finkel]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 12:09:37PM +1100, teor wrote:
> 
> > On 9 Mar 2017, at 12:07, David Fifield <david at bamsoftware.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> We are trying to work out if it's a side effect of how we count
> connections, and blocking from the UAE that terminates connections
> part way through.
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21345

Excellent, thanks!