[tor-talk] Many more Tor users in the past week?

[Anton Nikishaev]

Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu> writes:

> Anybody know details? It's easy to speculate (Pirate Browser publicity
> gone overboard? People finally reading about the NSA thing? Botnet?),
> but some good solid facts would sure be useful.

Check this out

http://blog.fox-it.com/2013/09/05/large-botnet-cause-of-recent-tor-network-overload/


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lelf