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United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days

362 点作者 temp超过 8 年前

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benjojo12超过 8 年前
I believe that tor metrics counts when a connection starts, not when a connection is _established_<p>This is a important difference, because if there is active DPI that is shutting down a connection before handshake can happen, it will inflate the numbers massively.<p>I suspect what actually is happening is a ISP in UAE has deployed a DPI system that can detect the Tor TLS signature
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indice超过 8 年前
The same rise was seen in Turkey last month. The phenomenon is caused by failed reconnect due to DPI-based censorship. See Annex A: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turkeyblocks.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;tor-blocked-in-turkey-vpn-ban&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;turkeyblocks.org&#x2F;2016&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;tor-blocked-in-turkey-vp...</a>
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blunte超过 8 年前
What this really indicates, bot or not, is that once you educate people, they will act in their self (and more importantly, self+others) interests. Oppressive and controlling (controlling or controling, I can never decide) regimes will try to prevent it. But it is like trying to prevent wind.<p>The wind will come. You must adapt and accept. And if you are against the wind, you must change.
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omginternets超过 8 年前
Any chance this could be a state-sponsored attack aimed at correlating traffic?
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Raed667超过 8 年前
This also happened in Tunisia in 2013 [0]. We believe that it was a bot. [1]<p>[0] : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mjYsP" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mjYsP</a><p>[1] : <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;the-anonymous-internet-is-under-attack-1257343241" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gizmodo.com&#x2F;the-anonymous-internet-is-under-attack-12...</a>
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falloutx超过 8 年前
The same graph with censorship events on: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metrics.torproject.org&#x2F;userstats-relay-country.html?start=2016-10-23&amp;end=2017-01-21&amp;country=ae&amp;events=on" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;metrics.torproject.org&#x2F;userstats-relay-country.html?...</a><p>Just on the start the spike, there are many events. Though I don&#x27;t know how to find information on those events.
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Asdfbla超过 8 年前
Just out of curiosity: How is Tor looking these days, security-wise? Does someone have a recent analysis of the attacks Tor is facing from state-level attackers currently? Just wondering if any new threats to Tor have come up in the recent years that hadn&#x27;t been considered before stuff like Snowden happened.
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rmela超过 8 年前
Looks like the UAE has outlawed use of torque, and is also using DPI to block it, resulting in inflated numbers due to dropped connections and ensuing attempted reconnects.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trac.torproject.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;tor&#x2F;ticket&#x2F;6246" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trac.torproject.org&#x2F;projects&#x2F;tor&#x2F;ticket&#x2F;6246</a>
Jeaye超过 8 年前
First thing that came to my mind was a botnet; it would be one of the easiest ways to get a huge spike in Tor usage, I&#x27;d think.
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libeclipse超过 8 年前
I can&#x27;t find anything blatant in the news that would explain something like this, especially of this magnitude.<p>I think it might be a botnet or something similar, although that&#x27;s just conjecture at this point.
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elastic_church超过 8 年前
The economic incentives over TOR have really improved TOR<p>I was pulling 800k&#x2F;sec the other day, pretty surprised.<p>Some circuits are still slow. But I remember not that long ago (18 months?) it was a miserable expereince
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nullrouten超过 8 年前
It&#x27;s possible that the geoIP records for a large IP block or set of IP blocks has been corrected (or broken) to reflect UAE.
ajaimk超过 8 年前
Protonmail added support for TOR this week but that can&#x27;t be it
k-mcgrady超过 8 年前
The linked page doesn&#x27;t seem to have any info other than the stats. Can someone explain the reason for the spike?
TheSageMage超过 8 年前
If this is an attempt by the UAE to prevent TOR connections via DPI, who would the primary target(s) be? I recognize that&#x27;s an awkward question to ask of an anonymized service like TOR, but who are the actors in the UAE who might use TOR and why target them now?
foota超过 8 年前
Could this be a result of the articles about a &quot;backdoor&quot; in whatsapp?
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aarontyree超过 8 年前
Unless the massive uptick in Tor client connections can be correlated to a massive uptick in Tor client downloads its not a societal event and is more likely government sponsored.
farrokhi超过 8 年前
Perhaps they accidentally lifted the blocking rules. Or it will drop as soon as they upgrade their censorship software.
anaccountwow超过 8 年前
It must be something that was posted on hacker news lately!
SCAQTony超过 8 年前
Not that is possible to detect gender but I suspect the bulk of those users are female since they are the most repressed. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenational.ae&#x2F;business&#x2F;telecoms&#x2F;uae-top-for-female-internet-use-in-gcc" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thenational.ae&#x2F;business&#x2F;telecoms&#x2F;uae-top-for-fema...</a>