[tor-relays] Bridge Sees 100x Clients Starting 2019-08-31

[Philipp Winter]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 12:25:03PM -0700, Porcelain Mouse wrote:
> 1) Can we be pretty sure the bulk of this sudden increase in users is
> abuse traffic?  If not, is this a problem?

Are most of your new clients from Iran?  We believe that some popular
third-party software started using our bridges, causing these spikes.

> 2) What should I do about it, if anything?

There's not much to do at this point.  If this is becoming a burden for
your bridge, you could change its port(s), which may get rid of these
third-party users -- at least temporarily.

> 3) Would using obfuscation help this problem?

I'm not sure what protocols this third-party software uses.  Since
you're asking, I assume your bridge only runs vanilla Tor?

Cheers,
Philipp