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Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August

Posted by timothy on from the gee-fellas-I-wonder-why dept.

hypnosec writes that the Tor network has witnessed a massive rise in the number of users connecting to it for the month of August. "The privacy-enhancing network is known for providing an anonymous browsing experience through the use of a series of encrypted relays, and has had as many as 500k users throughout this year so far. But if we check the latest statistics available through Tor Metrics Portal there has been a whopping 100 percent increase in the number of Tor clients and as many as 1,200,000 users are connecting to the network. The previous peak for the network was in January 2012, when it saw as many as 950,000 users."

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  1. More Tor usage is good by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Informative

    More Tor exit nodes is better. The NSA surely has many honeypot nodes, we need to drown them out with more legitimate exit nodes.

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    "When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
    1. Re:More Tor usage is good by blueg3 · · Score: 5, Informative

      While more Tor exit nodes is better, all use of Tor should be done assuming that the exit node is controlled by a hostile party. A lot of the exit nodes are controlled by people much more unpleasant than the NSA.

      Note that exit nodes are the weak link in Tor. Your traffic through them is not encrypted by Tor, so you must use SSL. They are, by design, a man in the middle, so you must be prepared for MitM attacks.

  2. "Tor, summarized for mortals" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.kimmoa.se/Tor_summarized_for_mortals/