[tor-talk] Blocking event in Kazakhstan, October 2014?

[Cypher]

On 01/03/2015 03:30 AM, David Fifield wrote:
> I wrote a program to look for blocking events by looking for
> unlikely increases/decreases in relays and bridges simultaneously.
> This Kazakhstan event was one of the highest-scored finds by the
> program. I'm not aware of a Tor blocking event in Kazakhstan at
> that time, but it's the same pattern (decrease in relays and
> increase in bridges) that we've seen in Iran in late July 2014: 
> https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2014-06-01&end=2014-10-31&country=ir&events=off
>
> 
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?graph=userstats-bridge-country&start=2014-06-01&end=2014-10-31&country=ir
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/12727

I'm also curious about the giant onboarding in Russia between June and
July. What drove so many users to Tor during that month? I can't
remember anything. Were there elections?

Cypher