- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 08:17:19 +0100
- To: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>
- Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Mike Belshe <mike@belshe.com>, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz>, httpbis mailing list <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
A bit off-topic, but since it was brought here... On Sat, Dec 05, 2015 at 03:51:11AM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > If I was a betting person, I'd bet they continue to work - except Tor > Project, I expect that to be blocked if it isn't already. Here is our > user graph for the entire year of 2015 for Kazakstan: > https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2015-01-01&end=2015-12-05&country=kz&events=off I always find it a bit funny that the infrastructure that provides you with a supposedly safe network respecting your privacy openly collects data based on your source address and phones home to feed statistics that are presented to the public. When you look at small places such as Niue, you see between 0 and 1 user basically, so the deployment is probably so small that everyone there knows exactly who's the person being using Tor and can monitor his/her internet usage in real time : https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-relay-country.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2015-01-01&end=2015-12-05&country=nu&events=off It may be a kid supposed to work on his lessons and whose parents are monitoring from their workplace using this graph, knowing when he's wasting his time on the net instead of working. This kid would have remained unnoticed by *not* using Tor and maybe he doesn't understand how his parents know he lies! That's always the problem when one starts to get many users, it becomes hard to resist to the temptation to collect data, it might be in human nature :-/ Willy
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