[tor-relays] rise in bridges starting with ~2017-03-28

[nusenu]

Hi,

I don't know if the discussion of the thread "22% of bridges run by a
single entity?" [1] sparked this, but someone was very busy adding lots
of obfs4 bridges.

Normally you would see <50 new bridges per day, in the last few days we
saw >120 new bridges per day.

They all run tor 0.2.9.10, support the obfs4 transport and have a
nickname that looks like it is generated from a dictionary.

https://github.com/nusenu/tor-network-observations/blob/master/2017-03-29_many_new_obfs4_bridges.txt


You can even see it on metrics:
https://metrics.torproject.org/networksize.html


[1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2017-March/012156.html


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