[tor-talk] Why most democratic contries are most active users of TOR... except Russia of course

[Justin]

Hello,
You’re partially correct when you say don’t take the metrics as real users.  Some of them may be bots, but can you please give us a link to an article about those events that you discussed?  I really doubt that 1.5 million bots are using Tor everyday by the way.

> On Jan 2, 2016, at 2:32 PM, karsten.n at mailbox.org wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Артур Истомин <art.istom at yandex.ru> wrote:
>> Where are all these bloody regimes with murderous dictators (except
>> Russia)?
> 
> Most or at least many "Tor user" are malicious bots. In summer 2013 80% of
> Tor users were bots of the Mevade.A botnet, not real users. 
> 
> Military cyber forces are using Tor botnets too. In April 2014 (during
> Ukraine crisis) a hidden service botnet was launched only in Russia.  
> 
> Don't take the metrics as real users.
> 
> (just my 5 cent)
> Karsten N.
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